DATA IS DRIVING IMPROVEMENTS
SMS is not just about safety management practices. It is also about data – aircraft and trip information that is being captured in flight and on the ground every day.
This data is driving improvements in safety management systems as they evolve to better collect and make sense of this information and use it to provide useful, actionable insights to helicopter and UAS operators.
“What’s new in SMS? Well, the primary change has been the shift towards data analysis,” Baldwin’s Starke says. “This is because SMS is data intensive by nature. This data analysis drives the development of necessary operational measures to determine if processes are performing as designed, risk controls are performing effectively, and the organization is meeting its stated safety objectives. While this intent has always been part of the SMS design, organizations in the last five to 10 years have become more aware of this need and have put it into practice in their systems.”
Algorithms (small programs that use sequences of finite steps to solve particular problems) are the heart of SMS data analysis. For instance, algorithm-based SMS software can collect and crunch the data generated by a helicopter’s avionics and engines to provide a clear picture of what happened in flight. “Say that we had a near miss with another helicopter,” says Wyvern’s Day. “The SMS algorithms can recreate what happened in flight so that it can be analyzed on the ground afterwards, allowing for safety procedures to be adjusted so that this doesn’t happen again.”
This same SMS software can detect how many times such near misses have happened in the past, and on whose flights, based on the software’s comparison of the most recent data set of past recorded events. “We can then look at pilot fatigue reports to spot trends and take meaningful, positive action to reduce the circumstances that allowed this to happen,” Day says.
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