Learn how you can increase your organizations safety capacity. Baldwin's new Accident Prevention Effort (APE) tool is intended to quantify an organization's efforts to build safety capacity

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.

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

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

Widespread downdrafts cause this relatively rare phenomenon.

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Engage managers to be a part of the inspection process.

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

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

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

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Running an effective SMS can be a lot of hard work. In this Safety Chat we discuss two tools to help balance that work: Time-blocking and the Pomodoro Technique.

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

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

A unique take on freezing rain

and its effect on aviation. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Learn more about nominal and ordinal data and how you can use it as a safety manager.

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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

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 How do we set an objective with the desire to change the results we have little to no control over? We look at SPIs and SPTs and the difference between process-based objectives and outcome-based objectives.

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

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

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

Digital Data Management: 

It's not your father's FOQA Program.

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

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

It's called continuous improvement,

not continual.

It's an ongoing journey.

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

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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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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.

Rather than just a "check the box" requirement, we look at the importance of a safety manual, what to include and not include, constructing the manual, and more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding the balance over what we can control and what we cannot. What does the organization have in its power that it can control?

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.​

Listen to a discussion of what mountain waves are and how they have the potential to be a factor in flights over mountain ranges and parts of the midwest.