With the expected
growth in air transportation, there is a need to
make greater efforts and adopt new measures to
continue improving aviation safety.
The use of Safety Management Systems
(SMS) can contribute to this effort
by helping airlines detect and correct safety
problems before they result in aircraft accidents or
incidents.
Leading regulatory aviation agencies declared
guidelines for the establishment of SMS at airports:
ICAO Annex 14:
"A systematic approach to managing
safety, including the necessary organizational
structures, accountabilities, policy and procedures"
FAA AC 150/5200-37:
"Formal business like approach to
managing safety risk. It includes systematic
procedures, practices and policies for the
management of safety"
Main goals of a safety management process:
1. Identify possible hazards with significant risk
of an accident, injury or damage
2. Select appropriate corrective action to eliminate
this risk or to reduce it to acceptable levels
3. Monitor the corrective action taken and test its
efficiency
Establishing a formal reporting procedure within the
airline management is an important element of each
SMS that allows monitoring the level of safety
performance achieved throughout the organization,
being aware of every possible threat or risk and
taking appropriate corrective action to minimize
those risks.
This requires the availability of operational data
and means for analyzing this data.
Our
FavoWeb FRACAS software product answers
with the 4 basic requirements from SMS:
Collection and management of operational
data
FavoWeb FRACAS functionality and configuration
allows for uniform and easy data collection. Forms
are flexible and allow identifing fields or data to
be collected and tracked. FavoWeb FRACAS is user
friendly and wherever possible can operate on "point
and-click" options, so that data collection is easy
and therefore accurate. This also facilitates
analysis and reporting as "free-text" input is
minimized.
Analysis of the data
FavoWeb FRACAS offers numerous reliability and
statistics trending reports combined with the
flexible query mechanism.
Risk Assessment
Our RAM Commander's
Safety Assessment Software Module implements
tasks of qualitative and quantitative safety
assessment required during system development:
- Generation and
verification of safety requirements;
- Identification of
all relevant failure conditions;
- Consideration of
all significant combinations of failures causing
failure conditions;
- Generation of
output reports starting from the stage of
Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA/PHA) and ending by
the System Safety Assessment (SSA) verifying that
the design meets safety requirements.
Corrective
Action Effectiveness Assessment
FavoWeb FRACAS Corrective Actions module provides
full support of all corrective action activities: CA
definition, implementation, verification and
follow-up, documentation of the entire process and
measuring the efficiency of the proposed CA with the
help of special metrics.
This mechanism offers 2 options:
- Existing
corrective Action Mechanism: from CA
identification, FRB/MRB decision making and
follow-up to CA implementation
- Modified CA
mechanism tailored to the requirements
See also:
Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Actions
System (FRACAS) Software
Failure Data Collection Services
Download FRACAS Software Demo
SoHaR Safety Assessment Services
Reliability & Safety Analysis Software Download
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