SM4 Safety Articles & Resources
Crushing Groupthink in Pursuit of Safety: A Case Study
I recently had the wonderfully unique experience of working with a group of experts who didn’t give a damn about hurting each other’s feelings. The team was tasked to produce…
Safety Culture…Continuous Nurturing Required
Culture is to organizations what personality is to individuals—every person has one and every organization has one. Whether that culture is supportive or stifling, transparent or guarded, inclusive or selective,…
Sorry, There’s No App For That
Experiential Learning and Achieving Cerebral Retention Since when did we become an industry of passive learners, perfectly content to sit quietly through another lectern-leaning, talking head presenter? Even if he…
Emergency Response Planning – Integrating a Family Assistance Service Provider
Ask any organization with a solid culture what they would do if faced with an aviation accident, and the answer will often be “take care of the families.” These same…
A Source of Stability Amidst a Torrent of Change
Our industry is on the bow wave of some of the greatest change in the last 50 years. Tens of thousands of new pilots and maintenance professionals are entering the…
A Brief History of Upset Training
On March 3, 1991, a Boeing 737 crashed near the approach end of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport runway 35. The cause of the crash was later determined to be loss…
How Supply Chain/External Vendors Can Impact Your SMS Performance
For companies that have implemented a Safety Management System, the word “audit” has become an integral part of day-to-day operations. Yet, how many organizations actually examine the safety performance of…
FAA Proposed Rules for Small UAS Fall Short
In February 2015 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on rules for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). The proposed rules outline both…
On Approach with ASIAS
If we pause, take a look back and see how far we have come in our safety programs, we have made significant steps that have evolved into mature safety management…
