July 12, 2021

3 Things that Make
or Break the SMS

The safety management system is dependent on human actions. In this episode, we discuss three key drivers between a good and a poor SMS: training, leadership, and engagement.

June 7, 2021

Measuring Safety Culture

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Strong safety culture is critical to fostering a healthy Safety Management System. Today we discuss how to measure that culture.

May 24, 2021

A revisit Safety Performance Monitoring and Measurement

A discussion of what SPIs are, the ways they help your organization, how to measure using lagging and leading indicators.

May 17, 2021

WX Alert: The ‘Canes are a Comin’!

Hurricanes are nature's most powerful storm. What to expect for the 2021 Hurricane season.

May 10, 2021

Assessing Your Fatigue Management Program

Implementing an FMP is essential to ensure operators are not performing duties fatigued.

May 3, 2021

Organizational Commitment and SMS Engagement

Leadership that demonstrates care and well-being for followers - not only safety- can increase organizational commitment.

April 26, 2021

WX Alert: The Derecho

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Widespread downdrafts cause this relatively rare phenomenon.

April 19, 2021

Supporting FOQA with SMS

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Digital Data Management: 

It's not your father's FOQA Program.

April 12, 2021

Inspections and the IEP

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Engage managers to be a part of the inspection process.

April 5, 2021

Safety Capacity

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Building Safety Capacity is the new way to look at safety in operations.

March 29, 2021

Revisiting Safety Communication Strategy

Communication Strategy ensures that the right individuals get the right information. 

March 22, 2021

WX Alert: Dry Lines

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Dry lines usually spawn discrete thunderstorms which can turn into supercell thunderstorms.

March 15, 2021

Human Organizational Performance and Leading

Not a program... It is an operating philosophy.

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March 8, 2021

A Look at Continuous Improvement

It's called continuous improvement,

not continual.

It's an ongoing journey.

March 1, 2021

Training Department Managers in SMS

Variations in SMS training - not everyone is trained to the same level.

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February 15, 2021

WX Alert: What Is Wind Chill and Why Does It Matter?

Learn more about wind chill - what it is and how we use it today!

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February 8, 2021

Tomatoes and Blocks: 
Safety Manager Productivity

Running an effective SMS can be a lot of hard work. In this Safety Chat we discuss two tools to help balance that work.

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February 1, 2021

Risk Tolerability

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We discuss classifying risk, the relation of hazards and risks, risk acceptance vs. risk tolerable criteria, and more. 

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January 25, 2021

Mitigating Complacency and Skill Erosion During COVID

Many managers and frontline employees are reporting concern over these issues. We give suggestions you can use to help: Knowledge, Attitude, Skill and Habit.

January 18, 2021

Using Water Vapor Imagery to Understand the Atmosphere

The atmosphere is our work environment and we should learn all we can about it. We look at the importance of imagery for weather predictions and flight planning.

January 11, 2021

Elements of Safety Policy

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Safety policy and objectives is foundational to a safety management system. Policy is leaderships expression of how they want safety to be managed.

January 4, 2021

Constructing a Functional Safety Manual

We look at the importance of a safety manual, what to include and not include, constructing the manual, and more.

December 21, 2020

WX Alert: Freezing Rain and the Effect on Santa's Sled

A unique look at freezing ran

and its effect on aviation.

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December 14, 2020

What's the Point of the

Safety Committee?

What should the safety committee be doing? Who should be on it? Should it be strategic or tactical? This and much more.

December 7, 2020

Let's Get Real about the FRAT - Part 2

A continuation of last weeks discussions on the FRAT. A discussion of the ways to make the FRAT more real.

November 30, 2020

Let's Get Real about the FRAT

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Is a FRAT all that is needed for an effective SMS or has that been a misconception that has grown through the years

November 16, 2020

WX Alert: The Alberta Clipper

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We discuss the implications Alberta Clippers have on business aviation safety.

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November 9, 2020

Organizational Pathogens:

Just Culture in Action

 We discuss internal actions that can harm the organization and what leadership can be doing in the area of justice.

November 2, 2020

Appropriate Safety

Manager Training

Safety manager training is important but what constitutes good training? We discuss the need for teaching the interdependency of the four elements of SMS.

October 26, 2020

An Introduction to ARMS Methodology of Risk Assessment

Learn more about ARMS and its ability to quantify some of the unquantifiable in operational risk assessment.

October 19, 2020

Business Continuity in

Times of Emergency

A discussion of the means for preserving functions critical to the nature of your business in the face of a disaster.

October 12, 2020

Using Inferential Statistics in Safety Management

When we get data in, what can do with it besides sticking it in a graph which can have very little meaning.

October 5, 2020

Reducing Stress and Anxiety During the Pandemic

A discussion on the relationship between stress and fatigue and how you can communicate to reduce stress for others.

September 28, 2020

Using Objectives to Improve Safety in the Organization-Part 2

Learn how SPIs and SPTs fit into safety objectives. We take a look at some sample data and it can be used to set objectives

September 21, 2020

Using Objectives to Improve Safety in the Organization-Part 1

What safety objectives are and how they tie into performance indicators and performance targets. 

September 14, 2020

Threat and Error

Management

We take a look at the framework for looking at hazards, assessing them and implementing controls.

August 31, 2020

WX Alert: Atmospheric Stability

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Listen as we discuss what atmospheric stability is, how it develops, and how it effects weather locally and world-wide.

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August 10, 2020

Revisiting SPIs

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What are SPIs and how can you use them most effectively within your organization

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August 3, 2020

Setting Up Initial and Recurrent SMS Training

What are the requirement for a safety manager in the area of initial and recurrent training and how to keep it relevant for your employees.​

March 9, 2020

Accountable Executive Training

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We discuss how to present to your accountable executive including best formats, timetable, and what's required for an ISBAO Audit