Where Birds Don't Fly

When identifying contributing factors and root causes, an SMS enterprise considers human factors, supervision factors, organizational factors, and environmental factors. Organizational factors is more than how business structure of an organization, it is about how the organizational structure affect policies, processes, procedures, acceptable work practices, within the organization of the certificate.  Organizational factors are how organizations apply crew resource management to flight crew, maintenance personnel, and airport airside personnel. Crew resource management is commonly known to be used as a tool for pilots to maintain performance levels, but these principles are also suitable for airport airside personnel. Airside personnel must also uphold a high level of integrity, and acceptable performance levels.  At large international airports, with high aircraft movements, there are time limits for how long runways, taxiways or aprons may be closed for unscheduled maintena...

When identifying contributing factors and root causes, an SMS enterprise considers human factors, supervision factors, organizational factors, and environmental factors. Every person is working under supervision, knowing it or not. A CEO of a corporation is supervised, and a AE of an SMS enterprise is supervised. Everyone is supervised in one way or another, and everybody got to serve somebody. Types of supervision also depends on what is being supervised. Different types of supervision are required for education than for operational control, fundamental task supervision is different than auxiliary task supervision, academic task supervision is different than practical application task supervision, and process compliance supervision is different than process output supervision.  Every task comes with a supervision factor which depends on what task is supervised.   Micromanagement is considered a form of supervision, it is used by many and is in their opinion an excellent ...

When identifying contributing factors and root cause, an SMS enterprise considers human factors, supervision factors, organizational factors, and environmental factors. These factors support their safety management system (SMS) policy on which the safety management system (SMS) is based, goalsetting system, process to identify hazards, training system, reporting system, communication system, quality assurance system, audit system, and they support their tasks for airlines and airports to operate with a comprehensive and compliant safety management system.  Environmental factors are comprehensive factors affecting SMS, since there are several subcategories included. Environmental factors encompass geographical location, climate, ecological, illumination, terrain, natural accelerated events, operational environment, workplace, design, equipment, communication, and more. Within each subcategory there are multiple secondary categories, and complementary categories. Environmental factor...