Safety Management Systems in Aviation

An Evaluation of the Relationships between Collegiate Aviation Safety Management System Initiative, Self-Efficacy, Transformational Safety Leadership and Safety Behavior mediated by Safety Motivation

“…The challenge in safety management is the reality that prescriptive regulation may not address all the specific hazards that are likely to exist in different aviation organizations and contexts. Prescriptive regulations may also not have effective control measures against all the specific hazards and its attendant risks in aviation organizations (Dekker, 2011;Reason, 1997;Stolzer, Halford & Goglia, 2008).…”

“…There has also been a contemporary advocacy by ICAO, for a shift from prescription-based safety management to a performance-based management of safety, where the goal is to observe higher than anticipated leading safety performance indicators relative to key safety targets pre-established, such as higher frequency of personnel safety training and self-reporting of safety issues by front-line personnel (FAA, 2012;ICAO, 2013;Remawi, Bates, & Dix, 2011). The extent to which these practices are implemented in an organization will be manifested through various actions and programs of the management and will be clearly visible to an insider like an employee (Adjekum, 2014b;FAA, 2012;Stolzer, Halford, & Goglia, 2008).…”

SMS Derived vs. Public Perceived Risk in Aviation Technology Acceptance (Literature Review)

“…It should be noted that acceptable does not mean necessarily reducing the risk level to zero. These perceived risks and associated risk controls are then presented to management in a cost-benefit analysis approach for implementation decisions (Stolzer & Goglia, 2015). Parnell et al, (2011) describe a similar SMS risk derivation process in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risk.…”

“…The SMS process starts with defining risk. Stolzer and Goglia (2015) use expected losses mated with the probability of those losses occurring to define risk. Parnell, Driscoll, and Henderson (2011) parallel this definition stating risk is a probabilistic event that when it occurs, causes undesired changes in technical performance, cost or schedule of events.…”

Development of the framework for a Self-Assessment Tool to assess the effectiveness of reporting within a safety critical industry

“…Therefore it is crucial to ensure that each and every hazard is identified and assessed as demonstrated within the Carter and Smith (2006) statistical model for accident causation whereby an unidentified hazard will have both an unknown severity and likelihood and therefore an unknown risk to the organisation. In order to ensure that organisations have as many risks identified as possible, Safety Management Systems (SMS) are increasingly rolled out within organisations and more recently becoming a regulatory requirement (Civil Aviation Authority (UK), 2010; Edwards, 2005;Mitchison & Papadakis, 1999;Stolzer, Halford, & Goglia, 2010).…”