Where Safety Meets Responsibility
The employer and employee must work together sharing the responsibility to provide a safe environment for everyone.
Safety, Certification and Compliance
The Jack of all Trades aka The Safety Manager
As the aviation industry transitions into a world of SMS, the role of Safety Manager is evolving and has been brought into the lime light. Before today’s safety environment, this job may have been in…
It’s 2 a.m. and the phone rings…
It seems like there have been a multitude of events in the news lately that would require a company to put its Emergency Response Plan (ERP) into action. Unfortunately, 2 a.m. with an event unfolding…
Defining “Safe”
The Iceland Eyjafjallajokull volcano has caused quite a ruckus within the aviation industry over the past 10 days, but it’s not the volcano or flight safety in ash clouds that I’m writing about. While reading…
Expanding SMS Beyond Aviation
The introduction of System Safety-based principles to air carrier operations and surveillance in the latter half of the 1990s has led to the safest decade in U.S. aviation history. Not resting on these laurels, aviation…
Safety “Aha” Moments
CBS recently aired a new show, “Undercover Boss,” just after the Super Bowl. The first episode featured Waste Management President Larry O’Donnell. At the very beginning, Mr. O’Donnell shared a story about how his daughter…
Actions Speak Louder than Words
So you’ve jumped on the safety train. Your senior executive has written and signed a statement publically professing the goal of being a safe company. You purchased safety posters and strategically placed them throughout the…
Breaking the Norm: Are new methods for measuring aviation safety needed?
For years, the benchmark for measuring aviation safety has been accident and incident statistics. Is this approach antiquated? As we move towards Safety Management Systems (SMS) and adopt proactive safety practices and programs, should new…