Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) www.sassofia.com looks at the key features of an active Safety Management System Introduction.
Introduction – Ensuring the Continued Validity of the Safety Management System
Employ Safety teams throughout the business to identify and support the resolution of safety exposures across an organization using Causal Factor Checklists and other available organisation tools.
- Implement Working Groups to prioritize and address specific local issues
o Use this as an opportunity to Identify any improvement opportunities
- Safety audits and ad-hoc inspections, focusing on both the Safety Management System as well as other organizational systems.
- Safety surveys that examine procedures or processes related to a specific operation.
- Safety occurrence reporting effectiveness.
- Investigation of safety occurrences effectiveness.
- Wide reaching Safety studies, encompassing broad safety concerns (appropriate to address system safety deficiencies).
- Safety reviews related to change management including introduction and deployment of new technologies, change or implementation of procedures, or in situations of a structural change in operations.
- Using external Industry Data / Best Practice and General Understanding to drive prioritization of risk profiling.
- Continually review organisations top priority perceived risks.
o Conduct proactive risk assessments and respond with the implementation of protective barriers and defenses
- Review Current Status with reference to the risk register and assessment using risk matrix / Severity / Likelihood & Tolerability Guidance Tool.
- Establish SPIs and Performance Metrics to identify and describe Risk Priorities.
- Establish suitable performance measures for any automated data capture tools.
- Harmonize all available data (Internal & External) to develop the current risk picture.
- Develop a repeatable process to refine SPI targets and metrics.
- Establish reoccurring feedback loops with regulators.
Building the Organizational Risk Picture
Use whenever possible internal safety data (such as Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)) as well as available external data to prioritize risk management priorities.
Using the Risk Register data to build an understanding of the risks associated with Daily Operations – Use Root Cause Techniques (What If & Fishbone) to identify any potential gaps that could impact risk management priorities.
Developing Organizational Tools including:
- Contributory factor checklist
- Human Performance Assessments
- Statistical trend analysis
Focusing of Monitoring & Data Collection
- Safety monitoring and data collection processes used to:
o Provide validation of the safety assumptions and requirements identified in the risk assessment and mitigation processes.
o Validation of safety models used in risk management.
o Support for the development of safety indicators at national, regional and global level.
Safety Reporting Mechanisms :
- Mandatory incident or occurrence reporting systems, which require the reporting of certain types of events, such as serious incidents and accidents; and
- Voluntary incident or occurrence reporting systems, which allow for the submission of information related to observed hazards or inadvertent errors without a legal requirement to do so.
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