Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com considers the steps necessary to deliver an effective Organisational Aviation Safety Management System (SMS) For Any Organizational Project to be successful it must have ownership, an agreed timeline and sufficient resources to accomplish.   The Importance of Manpower Commitment Note 1 – How does the organisation ensure there is sufficient manpower…

Within the Aviation Safety Management System, it is necessary to develop effective methods of both Top Down & Bottom-up Communication. How to measure the current status of communication effectiveness? Consider a Communication Audit! A communication audit is a thorough evaluation of the organization’s ability to deliver information to every level with the organisation. Essential the…

The Focus of this blog is to consider the inter-relationship between Maintenance Error Management Systems (MEMS) – (typically using the Boeing Maintenance Error Decision Aid as a primary tool) and Safety Management through Human Factor Learning within the context of a viable Safety Management System. What is the Purpose of MEMS? The rationale behind a…

Introduction Firstly, to Differentiate between Hazard & Risk where a Hazard has the potential to cause harm and the risk of being associated with the likelihood that it will! Secondly to recognise that Hazards are an Integral Part of our Aviation System and whilst in isolation a Hazard is not necessarily a bad thing- We…