Safety Management
In aviation, compliance monitoring and safety management are both essential for ensuring safe and efficient operations, but they serve distinct purposes and focus on different aspects of safety oversight.
Safety management is focused on proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks to prevent accidents and incidents. This approach goes beyond mere compliance, seeking to enhance safety culture and continuously improve safety performance by managing risk at an organisational level. Safety Management is at the core of what we do at SIG Aviation.
Safety Management takes a proactive approach to risk by focusing on identifying and mitigating potential hazards. The aim is to understand the underlying causes of incidents and near-misses, making adjustments to prevent future occurrences. This involves a culture of continuous improvement and risk-based thinking. Although we regularly find that humans are at the centre of safety events, we take this as a given - never as an exception! Errors are part of human nature. Instead of focussing on the human in the error, we use our tools to understand what happened already, or is likely to happen in the future.
Doing so for many year, we have become experts in identifying hotspots in safety culture. We use and develop specific tools for this. For example, the European Aviation Safety Agency asked us to develop a specific tool for CAA inspectors to identify those safety hotspots. This helps EASA to use their oversight capacity where it is most needed.
Examples on our work
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Assessment of Safety Culture in a VIP airline
Shortly after the AOC issue, a young VIP airline experienced shortcomings in their documented Management System. Like many other organisations, the words dedicated to safety management on paper did not match the reality experienced by staff. SIG Aviation was tasked to identify the origin of the shortcomings and propose improvements to the CEO of the airline.
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Undetected HP bleed air leak - investigation
Maintenance staff discovered post flight extensive burn marks on an engine cowling. The CAMO contacted SIG Aviation to perform a safety investigation on the event. Using our Root Cause Analysis method, we performed an analysis to identify the root cause of the burn marks, and why this HP bleed air leak remained undetected during the maintenance work performed days earlier.
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Safety Management System training
Over the years, we have provided multiple organisations, ranging from large regulatory bodies to small start-up operators, with tailor made training programs on safety management. Our courses are packed with exercises and tools that we use in our daily work. Without exception, our courses are highly appreciated and often result in additional work orders. Talk to us on your training needs for safety management.