Risk Management

Rising to the Challenge of Safety Management System Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

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January 26, 2015

Steven Bentley

As a SMS trainer with many years experience and many courses successfully delivered, it is clearly evident that the biggest challenge every organisation faces is for sure connected to making this part of the process work for “your” organisation. Where are the challenges Well the first one is chronic under reporting – simply people are…

Sofema Aviation Services heads to the Far East

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September 01, 2014

Steven Bentley

Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to deliver Regulatory Training for LAOS Aircraft Engineering Company (LAECO). The Training will be delivered at the Corporate HQ in Vietniane LAOS and will take place in October 2014. An agreement to establish the Lao Airlines Engineering Company Limited (LAECO)…

Considering Aviation SMS Residual Risk Management

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August 18, 2014

Steven Bentley

When we talk about residual risk we are actually talking about the degree of exposure after we have implemented the agreed mitigation. In essence we are accepting that even after the mitigation has been applied there is still the possibility of sufficient risk to pose a degree of threat. You may see a formula to…

SMS Hazard Identification & Risk Management

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August 18, 2014

Steven Bentley

Tremendous advances have been made over the last 25 years in the overall Aviation Safety Environment, driven in a large part by the work of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Considering the size of commercial aviation in previous decades there was a significant number of accidents. Causal factors for early accidents included the lower…