Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) www.sassofia.com looks at the requirements for a Safety Management System (SMS). Introduction Safety management seeks to proactively mitigate safety risks before they result in aviation accidents and incidents. Safety management enables States to manage their safety activities in a more disciplined and focused manner. When a State and its aviation industry have…

Sofema Aviation Services (www.sassofia.com) considers the HFACS Framework. Introduction Spurred by increasing problems with human performance, the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) was developed by behavioural scientists in the United States Navy. Messer’s Wiegmann and Shappell referenced James Reasons Swiss-cheese model of accident causation. The goal of HFACS is not to attribute blame,…

Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com looks at what is coming related to EASA Part 145 Management System & the Introduction of SMS Introduction Safety management seeks to proactively identify hazards and to mitigate the related safety risks before they result in aviation accidents and incidents. Safety management enables an organisation to manage its activities in a…

The process of mitigating safety risks is the method by which the organisation is able to take an action or a range of actions which provides for a lowering of exposure in respect of the perceived risk. The elimination and/or mitigation of the perceived risk to a level which we calculate to be as low…