Why Accidents Happen?

Safety Risk Management and Safety Culture Why Accidents Happen?

All people who fly and airplane ask what is important about human factors and the role of the pilot flying a plane.

Accidents statistics seem to indicate that pilots do not have the appropriate tools to deal with their own roles in the cockpit. 

So, all pilots are trained to handle emergencies, such as engine failure or any electrical system failures, but they are sometimes no trained to handle the internal and external factors that act them.

But, how does safety culture of any organization affect the policy and implementation of its safety management system to avoid and stay away of incidents and accidents?

Measuring a safety culture inside any group is very important, but how do you measure a safety culture in an organization?

There are subcultures in any huge organization based on geography, other leadership styles and even which shift a person works.

In, my personal view and experience, to effectively measure a safety culture, the cultural norms of the organization must first to be identified, and them there must be and extensive examination of how the management team respond to errors.

Safety Risk Management is another important issue, in an effort to assist all aviation companies all around the world, to understand why accidents happen in any organization.

To recall and refresh all pilots who read my post, the most common, and specific causes of accidents, in order of incidence and regularity, are:

·         Loss of directional control.

·         Poor Judgment.

·         Airspeed not maintained.

·         Poor preflight planning and 

          poor decision making.

·         Clearance not maintained.

·         Inadvertent stalls, very important.

·         Poor crosswind handling.

·         Poor inflight planning and decision making.

As every pilot see here, almost all of these are a result of poor pilot performance, but not necessarily of a result of any equipment malfunction,

So, this is why Safety Risk Management and Safety Culture is very important to understand the role and importance of effective safety risk management and incident investigation in a functioning safety management system works.

Always keep in mind that flying is about people, much more so than about machines. 

To avoid any incident or accident increasing your awareness of human strengths will make you a safety pilot at all time you flying your airplane.

Always Fly Safely!

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Aviation Safety Culture

Aviation Safety Culture Effective Risk Management.

Safety Culture is an essential to success and key to accomplishing future goals in your organization to avoid and prevent future incidents and accidents.

Usually, Aviation Safety has been regulated strictly to follow up the Rules, Regulations and Standards Operation Procedures (SOP).

ICAO itself distinguishes between state Safety Programs (SSPs) and Safety Management Systems (SMSs) for air operators and maintenance organizations. 

SMS is a systematic approach to managing safety, including the necessary organizational structure, accountabilities, policies and procedures.

It follows that safety is the state in which the risk of harm to persons or property is maintained at or below an acceptable level. Human error is inevitable, and absolute Safety is First .

These are set as the Safety Goals for operators to maintain and stay away of accidents.

How important is a Safety Culture for your organization?

Safety Culture is the set of continuing with values and attitudes concerning safety, shared by every member of every level of an organization.

Safety culture is usually recognized as critical to the success of SMS.

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Human Factors in Improving Aviation Safety Landings

      What causes a bounce landing in aviation?

Today, I want to write and share some interesting issues you need to refresh when you making and approach to land your airplane safe to avoid a big incident or accident.

So, there are two primary causes of bounced landings: a landing hard, and landing too fast.

If you have a high sink rate, your tendency is to pull back on the yoke as you quickly approach to the ground. 

The angle-of-attack rapidly increases, creating enough lift to your airplane plane back into the air. The faster you are, the more, this is a problem, because you can create more lift.

No, worries bad landings usually start in making an unstabilized approach. You need to fix the error on time. 

Making a go around immediately is the best thing to do, if you think you are going to make a bounce landing if you are making an unstabilized approach.

A bounced landing is a type of landing where an airplane touches down on the runway, bounces back into the air, and later touches down again so fast. 

This can happen due to many factors and  reasons, one of that an excessive speed or a hard touchdown. 

Bounced landings, if you do not corrected on time can be dangerous, as they can cause some structural damage to the airplane and result in injuries or fatalities in a big incident or accident.

Always be alert and remember to recover from a bounced landing on time, all pilots must take immediate action to make a safe landing.

         Always Fly Safe.

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