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One of the biggest barriers to an effective Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) depends on the willingness of the employees to engage with the organisational system and for the managers to support such a program in a positive and tolerant way. Fully engaging with the Management Team is step 1 on our journey, to ensure…

With the introduction of ICAO obligations and additional regulatory requirements to deal effectively with the challenge of Fatigue we should acknowledge the fact that the obligation sits on multiple shoulders. Whilst clearly the regulator sets out the initial requirements and in the case of EASA this may be found in EASA ORO.FTL.120 Fatigue Risk Management…

Author – Steven Bentley Steve’s role is currently Director of Standards – EASA Regulatory Compliance at Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com – A regulatory and vocational training organisation. More than 10,000 delegates have completed SAS Training courses since launching in March 2008. So to consider the challenge of auditing SMS! As a performance system the standard prescriptive…

The active element in a performance based system depends on the success of the feedback “data” element together with an acceptable process for analysing the data. Final a measure with which we can benchmark typically called performance indicators or key performance indicators. The aim of an effective Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) is to both…