The Role of the Aviation Quality Assurance Auditor within the European Aviation Safety Agency “EASA”

How does the role the Quality Assurance (QA) Auditor differ within the EASA environment compared to say other aviation regulatory systems? (FAA for example?) Well, the first thing to consider is that the role of the Quality Assurance Auditor within the EASA system is quite specific in that it requires “Independence” This is not the…

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Safety Related Benefits of Implementing Aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Do safety management programs improve a company’s bottom line? The answer is a resounding “YES”, although benefits may be somewhat hard to quantify without an effective process to manage DATA and to implement Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Service Level Agreements (SLA). In addition to potential outright savings on benefit claims, civil liability damages or…

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Disposal of Hazardous Aviation Waste

A review for Aviation Stores Inspectors – Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com Definition of Hazardous Waste Hazardous waste can take the form of a solid, liquid or compressed gas. In the aircraft industry, waste can originate from the service or repair of aircraft components to temporary storage of outdated products that have not been used or…

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Are we correctly resourcing the Production Planning Function within our Maintenance Organisations?

What is Production Planning ? A technically driven process to utilize resources to produce the maximum output within a specific time period. Aviation Production Planning is a scalable activity, means in a small organization it could be an additional duty of production engineering personnel, whilst in a large organization or an MRO it becomes a…

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