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Review – Dealing with the Challenge of Delivering Effective SMS Training

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March 09, 2015

Steven Bentley

As we develop our Safety Management System (SMS) training program we have an opportunity to continually improve the program, the acceptance and the net benefit to the organisation. Consider the elements involved in the training we are going to deliver across the organisation. a) Basic Concept of the need for SMS Training To share this…

Introduction to Aviation Safety Auditing

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March 05, 2015

sofema

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…

Developing a Safety Culture Understanding

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Supporting the Aviation Production Planning Process - Developing Internal Service Level Agreements.

February 17, 2015

sofema

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…

Measuring SMS Status

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February 13, 2015

sofema

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/…