EASA Part M has been around officially since Sept 2003, Historically part of JAR OPS when in 1998 the Operator was identified as key player in maintaining the integrity of the Continuing Airworthiness across the fleet although only recently did it include General Aviation. Part M Training is recommended as an effective way of understanding…

A safety Audit should identify “Risk and Exposure” throughout the various departments taking into full consideration all organisational activities including of course any outsourced activities. The goal of the Safety Audit is to develop an initial understanding regarding exposures which can then be further explored and analysed as appropriate. We could say that safety auditing…

What is Safety Culture? Well lets first consider what culture is! Culture may be considered as how we perceive or understand the world around us our Beliefs, our Attitudes as well as our Values which we adopt as our own driven by a number of factors including the need to conform to appease and please…

What is the current Status of the SMS within our Organisation & Where are the Challenges? Consider the Following 10 key areas :- For each item annotate a number between 1 & 5 where 5 is very knowledgeable and 1 is minimum or limited knowledge of the question point. a) Safety policy and objectives i/…