The relationship between regulation, safety management systems and safety culture in the maritime industry

2013 ◽  
pp. 467-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Kongsvik ◽  
K Størkersen ◽  
S Antonsen
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals AVIATION SAFETY REGULATION IN THE MULTI-STAKEHOLDER ENVIRONMENT OF AN AIRPORT

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gráinne Murphy ◽  
Marina Efthymiou
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Airline Industry ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Primary Relationship

Safety is at the heart of the aviation system, accident rates are on a steady downward trend with 2.1 accidents per million departures in 2016, representing the lowest annual aviation accident rate. It is predicted that globally the airline industry will grow, expecting 7.2 billion passengers to travel in 2035 (IATA, 2016). The airport domain is a complex socio technical environment where an airline receives a range of services and is the focal point for the convergence of ground activities, part of its role is creating the ‘safety picture’ and a ‘safety space’ for its industry customers to provide these services to aircraft operators. All operators (excluding ground-handling service providers) at European Union (EU) airports are regulated by European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations and now all have Safety Management Systems in place. Using Dublin Airport as a case study, the paper explores safety culture and safety challenges amongst operators in the multi stakeholder context of Dublin airport’s airside operations. In particular, the paper argues that (i) the attitudes of airport stakeholders on the effectiveness of Safety Management Systems were positive with good indicators of an engaged safety culture, (ii) operators strive for safe airport operations as well as achieving compliance operations and (iii) attitudes towards multi stakeholder safety management depend on the primary relationship held by each party. Finally, the paper recommends strategies to be adopted to enhance and improve multi stakeholder safety culture at Dublin Airport.

scholarly journals Advancing Safety in Organisations: Application via the Luton Safety Stack

2019 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Job Smeltink ◽  
Sybert Stroeve ◽  
Barry Kirwan
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Potential Safety ◽  
Ground Handling

Controlling and improving safety in organisations is achieved using a Safety Management System (SMS). Notwithstanding the variety of components considered in SMS standards, including human factors and safety culture, safety management systems are sometimes observed by those at the ‘sharp end’ as being bureaucratic, distinct from actual operations, and being too focused on the prevention of deviations from procedures, rather than on the effective support of safety in the real operational context. The soft parts of advancing safety in organisations, such as the multitude of interrelations and the informal aspects in an organisation that influence safety, are only considered to a limited extent in traditional safety management systems. The research in Future Sky Safety Project 5 (FSS P5) focused on improving these human-related, informal organisational aspects. Since every organisation is unique, in the operations it conducts, its history, and its organisational culture, there cannot be a one-size-fits-all standard for advancing safety in organisations. Rather, this needs to be based on the organisation at hand, leading to tailored solutions. This has been applied to a safety culture assessment and enhancement approach applied for six key organisations at London Luton Airport, and the approach has become known as the Luton Safety Stack. The six organisations decided to share the detailed results of their individual safety culture assessments. They formed a group that holds quarterly meetings, which always include a workshop element. From this approach, the organisations were stimulated to develop harmonised procedures for all ground-handling operators at Luton, and for each operation, creating a simple one-page procedure with diagrams, to keep it simple and safe. The Luton Safety Stack shows that when organisations share a place, such as at an airport, they need the opportunity to meet to discuss both potential safety threats, and opportunities to advance safety, because even through organisations are interdependent, safety issues in one organisation often have implications for others.

SMS, Safety Culture, and the Four Pillars of Safety Applied to Airline Pilot Training

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Karlene Petitt
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Pilot Training ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Training Environment ◽  
Airline Safety ◽  
Airline Pilot ◽  
Proactive Measures

The history of airline safety includes both FAA economic and safety measures that have grown over the years. This article provides a timeline of airline safety trends from crew resource management to safety management systems. Industry challenges are identified to include operational constraints, training challenges, economic concerns, and human factors to indicate a necessary paradigm shift from reactionary strategies toward proactive measures required by a safety culture—reporting culture, just culture, flexible culture, and learning culture. A safety culture is the foundation for safety management systems (SMS) mandated by the FAA for airline operations, to include the four pillars of safety: safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion. This article will identify how to integrate SMS, safety culture, and the four pillars of safety into the airline pilot training environment with cost effective strategies to improve safety within an SMS framework supported by a safety culture.

scholarly journals Patient safety management systems, activities and work environments related to hospital-level patient safety culture

Medicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (50) ◽  
pp. e18352
Author(s):  
Shigeru Fujita ◽  
Yinghui Wu ◽  
Shuhei Iida ◽  
Yoji Nagai ◽  
Yoshiko Shimamori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Hospital Level ◽  
Safety Management Systems
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