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…

An Effective Aviation Safety Management System (SMS) provides industry with a key driver to manage the various elements, which can support the prevention of incidents and accidents. The crux of implementing an effective safety management system (SMS) is not just in defining it, but effectively implementing it. The Accountable Manager (AM) of the organization is…

FOD Considerations Part 2 Steven Bentley www.sassofia.com We should all understand the potential which exists for Foreign Object Debris and Foreign Object Damage to severely injure airport or airline personnel or to inflict damage on equipment. FOD comes from many different sources, we need to be constantly vigilant and to maximise our efforts to remove…

Until recently, Safety Management was considered almost devolved from all but flight operations, with reliability only concerning itself with operational metrics like ‘Despatch Reliability’. Nowadays, the introduction of other reliability metrics that are designed to project wear-out or failure rates has begun to address the requirement for Reliability to demonstrate Maintenance programme effectiveness. The question…