Safety Promotion is one of the four (4) components of a strong Safety Management System (SMS). While promoting safety may seem obvious, doing it right can have a profound impact on your operational readiness and your workforce culture. Safety promotion starts with training. Every organization should strive to structure both onboarding training and recurrent training for each functional job description of the operation. Training not only sets safety expectations […]
For those organizations in the northern hemisphere, we’re at the start of winter operational considerations; notwithstanding our friends on the Canadian border or in Canada/Northern Europe who might already be knee deep in it. As you look at the upcoming few months, have you leveraged your Safety Management System (SMS) to make sure that last year’s lessons learned are retrained and your team is well positioned for what mother […]
Objective data coming from the aircraft! Great organizations manage what they measure! How is the aircraft being flown? Were there deviations from standard procedures? Was it a long landing or a hard landing? Most importantly, what can we learn from each flight toward improving our performance? Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) is the process of collecting flight data from the aircraft to identify information such as altitude, airspeed, heading, and […]
Double Technology helps Safety Programs A Safety Management System (SMS) is not the software tool. Your organization can do the elements of SMS without having a specific software program. SMS software technology like VOCUS helps to facilitate the safety program in a way that simplifies the effort by your team, enhances the management visibility into issues to focus on and resolve, and as a result, yields a safer operation by enabling a […]