Considering the relationship between Aviation Quality and Aviation Safety, together with the relationship between Quality Assurance Auditing and Safety Assurance Auditing in Aviation Often it is apparent there is some confusion between the specific functions of the two different undertakings namely a quality assurance management system and that of a safety assurance management system. So…

Sometimes to implement solutions related to human errors may require substantive changes to the organisational system. This may require changes to shift working to alleviate the potential of fatigue, or to change how the shift handover is delivered. Managing error may also be re enforced by the introduction of error tolerance procedures into the working…

One way of looking at the relationship is to consider that SMS puts the flesh on the HF Skeleton. A strong organizational SMS system can deliver not just added safety but added value too. It is early days in the evolution of the implemented SMS systems so significant data is not in abundance, however that…