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Canadian Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS 2007) Counting the Accidents You Don’t Have… Evaluating safety performance in a risk management framework.

COUNTING THE ACCIDENTS YOU DON’T HAVE…
Evaluating safety performance in a risk management framework.

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Measuring safety performance is all too often reduced to counting accidents. However, accidents are rare, so this only tells a small part of the story; the whole story is more complex.

Linking safety performance to outcome measures, such as accident statistics, leads to a reactive rather than proactive approach.

Safety is about managing risk. But how do you know how well you manage your risks? How do you evaluate how well your management system is working? How do you know if your company’s practices are consistent across and throughout your organization? If we are to manage risks, we must learn other ways of assessing and evaluating the ultimate results of our risk management efforts.

As we move forward with the implementation of safety management systems (SMS) to proactively manage risk, we cannot underestimate the importance of continually evaluating safety performance.

Through a series of interactive workshops and a plenary session, CASS 2007 explored how to evaluate safety performance, including but not limited to risk analysis, identification of human and organizational factors, system effectiveness, and safety culture. Our goal was to further our understanding of this necessary aspect of risk management and look at how to apply this in a real-world setting.

Plenary presentations are available online.

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Opening Remarks
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon
 P.C., M.P., Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities 		HTML format
*Risk Management in Complex Sociotechnical Systems
Greg Jamieson
 Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto 		HTML format
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(1332 KB - 6 min 18 secs)
Applying Rasmussen’s Ladder in an Aviation Context
Jim McMenemy
Project Manager, Safety Intelligence
Transport Canada 		HTML format
PDF format
(284 KB - 1 min 20 secs)
*Measuring Aviation Safety Performance
Andrew Rose
Air Safety Manager
British Airways 		HTML format
PDF format
(720 KB - 3 min 24 secs)
*Using the SMART Method to Assess SMS in Aviation
Dr. Ronald J. Heslegrave
Chair, Research Ethics Board and Assistant Professor
University of Toronto 		HTML format
PDF format
(1372 KB - 6 min 30 secs)
*FDM as a Safety Management Tool
Capt. Bryon Mask
FDM Services Manager
Teledyne Controls Simulation 		HTML format
PDF format
(2943 KB -13 min 57 secs)
*Safety Performance Frameworks: Sharing Experience and Valuable Lessons Learned
Gerard van Es
Senior Consultant, Air Transport Safety Institute
National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) 		HTML format
PDF format
(2965 KB - 14 min 3 secs)
*Normal Operations Monitoring in Air Traffic Services
Greg Down
Supervisor, Air Traffic Control
NAV CANADA 		HTML format
PDF format
(298 KB - 1 min 24 secs)
DGCA Briefing
Merlin Preuss
Director General, Civil Aviation
 Transport Canada 		HTML format
PDF format
(480 KB - 2 min 16 secs)
*Relative Risk Evaluation Tool
Michael Kavoliunas
Senior Engineering Specialist SMS
Bombardier Aerospace 		HTML format
PDF format
(145 KB - 41 secs)
*A review of Safety Culture Research and Measurement
Olivier Lorrain
 Human Factors Specialist
Systèmes Humains-Machines Inc. and
Johanne Penington
Section Manager, Human Factors Engineering
Nuclear Safety Solutions Ltd. 		HTML format
PDF format
(1102 KB - 5 min 13 secs)
*Safety Health Monitoring: Compliance Audit vs. Safety Process Effectiveness Evaluation
Jeff Lafortune
President
International Safety Research 		HTML format
PDF format
(1303 KB - 6 min 10 secs)
Date modified:
2010-05-13