sms for a modern flight training organization
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SMS for a Modern Flight Training Organization. Safety Management System Basics Industry Flight Training Organization (FTO) Safety Functions Integration and Structure of SMS Value/Need. What is an SMS?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 1
Safety Management System• Basics• Industry
Flight Training Organization (FTO)• Safety Functions• Integration and Structure of SMS
Value/Need
SMS for a Modern Flight Training Organization
Sept. 13-14 2012
Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 2
What is an SMS?
FAA: formal, top-down business-like approach to managing safety risk. It includes systematic procedures, practices, and policies for the management of safety.
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What SMS is...
Compliance is integral to safety management
An effective interface for safety management
SMS completes the systems approach
A set of decision making processes for senior and line management
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Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 4
What SMS is not…
A substitute for compliance A substitute for oversight A replacement for system
safety A requirement for a new
department $$$ for high-speed, low-
drag consultants
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Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 5
SMS Purpose and Methods
Provides a systematic way to control risk, provide assurance that those risk controls are effective, and continuously evaluate the effectiveness of hazard mitigations implemented
Allows the certificate holder a formal means of meeting regulatory safety requirements (FARs) and the FAA means of evaluating management capability regarding safety performance
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Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 6
Evolution of Safety Strategy
Reactive(Past)
Responds to events that have
already happened, such as incidents
and accidents
Proactive(Present)
Predictive(Future)
Actively seeks the identification of hazardous
conditionsthrough the
analysis of the organization’s
processes
Analyzes systemprocesses and
environment to identify potential future problems
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Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 7
Four Pillars of SMS – Policy
Four Pillars of SMS
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Safety Policy• Management commitment
& responsibility• Safety accountabilities• Key safety personnel• Emergency response
planning• Documentation
Key Programs• Just culture initiatives• Internal evaluation• Emergency response
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Four Pillars of SMS – Risk Management
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• Safety reporting• ASAP• Investigations• Safety review boards
Risk Management• Hazard identification• Risk assessment and
mitigation
Four Pillars of SMS
Four Pillars of SMS – Safety Assurance
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Four Pillars of
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Safety Assurance• Safety performance
monitoring/measurement• Management of change• Continuous improvement
of safety programs Key Programs
• Aircraft data monitoring• FOQA • LOSA• Line check program
Four Pillars of SMS – Safety Promotion
Sept. 13-14 2012 Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 10
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Safety Promotion• Training and education• Safety communications• Rewards and
recognition
Key Programs• CRM training• TEM training• Newsletters• Safety awards*
Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 11
Training Industry SMS Implementation
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Flight training program design, ops, and structures are well developed
Challenge now is to blend SMS programs
(new) with existing flight training structures
(old)
Flight Training SMS
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Existing FTO Safety Components
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Experienced staff
Qualified maintenance
Policy andprocedures
Modern technology
FTO Safety Management Personnel
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• Very important!• Trained and safety-savvy pro• Safety – not a collateral duty!• Desire and motivation
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Unique Characteristics of an FTO
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Flight Training Organization:
• Learning, as opposed to operational, environment• Flight personnel at relatively early point in career• Operational tempo pressure• Instructor-student psychology• Organizational financial pressures• Lack of safety knowledge/culture
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Challenges
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How to operate in the Edge Zone??
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Challenges
How much safety do these personnel really need to know?
How involved should students be in safety program?
Not trying to make all personnel safety experts – safety culture
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FTO Policy
Sr. level management commitment
Establishment and maintenance of
a true and thorough just culture
Emergency response planning/drills
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FTO Risk Management
Hazard identification/risk management and mitigation
Event reporting (key component of safety culture)
Investigations and personnel training/education
Safety organizational structure (committees, etc.)Sept. 13-14 2012
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FTO Safety Assurance
Safety performance monitoring and measurement
Continuous improvement of safety programs
Modern technological initiatives:• GA-FDM Glass Cockpits Advanced avionics• ADS-B BRS TAA Operational Evals (LOSA, etc.)
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Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 20
FTO Safety Promotion
Training and education
Safety publications, news-
letters, emails, etc.
Safety bulletin boards
Electronic distribution of
awareness
Investigation reports
Safety awards*
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Signal Charlie HF/SMS Seminar 21
Value of SMS
If you think he’s expensive...
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wait until your organizationtallies up the cost of this...
Robust SMS program is the right thing to do Moral, legal, and ethical imperative Impending regulatory requirement International industry-accepted best practice
FTO SMS Design and
Implementation
It doesn’t have to be like this...
Plan the program, program the plan Train, practice, and drill Absolute commitment from management Incremental change
or this
Build your culture
Conclusion
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In the end...
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Whenever we talk about a pilot who has been killed in a flying accident, we should all keep one thing in mind. They made a judgment. They believed in it so strongly that they knowingly bet their life on it. That their judgment was faulty is a tragedy…
Every engineer, flight instructor, supervisor, doctor, and contemporary who ever spoke to them had the opportunity to influence their judgment, so a little bit of all of us goes with every pilot we lose.
Scott Shappell