Aviation Safety Management

                         Safety Culture is  the way safety is perceived, valued and prioritised in an organisation. It reflects the real commitment to safety at all levels in the organisation.  It has also been described as "how an organisation behaves when no one is watching".                         Safety Culture is not something you get or buy; it is something an organisation acquires as a product of the combined effects of Organisational Culture, Professional Culture and, often, National Culture. Safety Culture can therefore be positive, negative or neutral. Its essence is in what people believe about the importance of safety, including what they think their peers, superiors and leaders really believe about safety as a priority. Why is Safety Culture Important? Safety Culture can have a direct impact on safe performance. If someone be...

             Safety newsletters published once per month should be adequate in most cases. When a particular event occurs that can serve as a lesson learned, then it may seize the opportunity to publish out of sequence. These special safety announcements should not interfere with the regular schedule of safety newsletters.         Quarterly newsletters may not keep users actively engaged in the "safety process." One major goal is to instruct and generate safety awareness. If  publish quarterly, employees may soon forget message and purpose.                 The easiest and least expensive way to distribute the safety newsletter is by using the template. Another great idea to deliver the newsletter is to do it during routine safety meeting, safety committee meetings and managerial meetings. You may also consider posting safety newsletters on the bulletin boards that you external...

Description               CRM - Crew Resource Management - is the effective use of all available resources for flight crew personnel to assure a safe and efficient operation, reducing error, avoiding stress and increasing efficiency.             CRM was developed as a response to new insights into the causes of aircraft accidents which followed from the introduction of flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) into modern jet aircraft. Information gathered from these devices has suggested that many accidents do not result from a technical malfunction of the aircraft or its systems, nor from a failure of aircraft handling skills or a lack of technical knowledge on the part of the crew; it appears instead that they are caused by the inability of crews to respond appropriately to the situation in which they find themselves. For example, inadequate communications between crew mem...

Threat and Error Management (TEM) is an overarching safety concept regarding aviation operations and human performance. TEM is not a revolutionary concept, but one that has evolved gradually, as a consequence of the constant drive to improve the margins of safety in aviation operations through the practical integration of Human Factors knowledge. TEM was developed as a product of collective aviation industry experience. Such experience fostered the recognition that past studies and, most importantly, operational consideration of human performance in aviation had largely overlooked the most important factor influencing human performance in dynamic work environments: the interaction between people and the operational context (i.e., organisational, regulatory and environmental factors) within which people discharged their operational duties.   Background -  The origin of TEM can be traced to the  Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA)  concept. A partnership bet...

An  incident  is defined as: An occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft which affects or could affect the safety of operation. Note.— The types of incidents which are of main interest to the International Civil Aviation Organization for accident prevention studies are listed in Attachment C to Annex 13. A  serious incident  is defined as: An incident involving circumstances indicating that there was a high probability of an accident and associated with the operation of an aircraft which, in the case of a manned aircraft, takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked, or in the case of an unmanned aircraft, takes place between the time the aircraft is ready to move with the purpose of flight until such time as it comes to rest at the end of the flight and the primary propulsion system is shut down. Note 1.—...