Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com considers key elements and roles within the Aerodrome Environment. In aerodrome safety, managing the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders is complex, requiring strong collaboration, clear communication, and continuous attention to competence.
Introduction
Aerodrome safety is critical in ensuring the safe operation of aircraft, passengers, and cargo within an airport environment. By adopting best practices and addressing challenges proactively, aerodromes can maintain high safety standards and effectively manage risks associated with airfield operations.
• It involves multiple stakeholders, each with specific roles and responsibilities.
• The collaboration between these stakeholders is essential for maintaining high safety standards.
Sofema Online (SOL) considers the best processes to ensure safety assurance within an EASA Safety Management System (SMS).
Introduction – What is SMS – Safety Assurance?
Establishing and maintaining an EASA-compliant Safety Management System (SMS) is essential for aviation safety. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) sets rigorous standards to ensure airlines and other aviation organizations maintain high safety levels
• EASA – Safety assurance – all planned and systematic actions necessary to afford adequate confidence that a product, a service, an organisation, or a functional system achieves acceptable or tolerable safety.
• FAA – Safety assurance – Processes within the SMS that function systematically to ensure the performance and effectiveness of safety risk controls and that the organization meets or exceeds its safety objectives through the collection, analysis, and assessment of information.
Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com Considers the CAMO Personnel obligations to comply with UAE GCAA Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAME) requirements related to Safety & Compliance.
Safety management and compliance monitoring function - AMC1 S-1.CAMO.305(a)(4);(a)(5)
Safety management
Regardless of the organisational set-up, it is important that the safety manager remains the unique focal point for the development, administration, and maintenance of the organisation’s safety management processes.
Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com takes a Risk Assessment deep dive to examine the ICAO 5x5 Risk Assessment tool.
Introduction
The purpose of a risk matrix is to enable the categorization, prioritization, and benchmarking / Comparison of a data set (hazards or potential hazards).
Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com considers the safety management system elements within an EASA Part 21 Subpart G Production Organisation Approval holder (POAH)
Introduction (GM1 21.A.139(c))
Safety management seeks to proactively identify hazards and mitigate the related safety risks before they result in aviation accidents and incidents.
Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com considers the changes which will be applicable following the introduction of EU regulation 2021/1963.
Introduction
According to EASA the main change introduced in the regulation is the required implementation of a Safety Management System for maintenance organisations will require the following:
» To implement hazard identification, risk management, and safety assurance processes. » The designation of a safety manager.
Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com reviews the core elements of an effective Aviation SMS.
Introduction
To provide for the most worthwhile understanding of organizational system behaviour ensure appropriate involvement of the people who are actually engaged with the tasks and workflow.
Sofema Online considers the connection between Aviation Human Factors and Safety Management within the workplace.
Human Factors awareness should be integrated throughout our safety management systems including training, supervision, procedures, workplace design, risk assessment and emergency arrangements
Introduction
Once we take the view that Humans do not deliberately make mistakes we start to understand the importance of mitigating any “perceived” exposures by understanding how humans and human behavior can most safely and efficiently be integrated within the business roles which we need to perform.
