Leading Safety, and Leading Safely – Part 2 – Providing Direction
You have a safety policy, surely that provides all the direction the organisation needs? Organisations are required by regulation or legislation to develop and display their safety policy, but from our experience it usually doesn’t mean anything to anyone, or support the people and their behaviours. It could be argued it is really a compliance […]
Leading Safety, and leading safely – Part 1
Really, another blog on leadership, isn’t LinkedIn full enough of leadership fluff? It is true that there is a bucket of information out there, some of it digestible, some of it not so. However, after almost four years of working with aviation organisations around the world following a career in naval aviation, and discussing daily […]
Baines Simmons Wins Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) Consultancy Contract
Air Partner’s aviation safety consultancy company Baines Simmons has been awarded a contract to provide aviation safety consultancy services to the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO). The objective of the programme is to improve and safeguard the airworthiness of all RAFO aircraft for years to come. The contract supports the development of a new […]
read full story >>Flying the Furrow – Friday Fact
Regarding last week’s Friday fact, navigating by following railway lines is a tried and tested practice but what happens when you set up a new route across the desert and there are no railways to follow? When a new route was proposed in 1921 between Palestine and Iraq, the decision was taken to emulate a […]
read full story >>Top safety risks in commercial aviation – Friday Fact
In 1925 Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, presented a paper to the to the Royal Aeronautical Society in which he analysed the “various sources of danger“. Sir Sefton stated that the top dangers present in aviation were: Breakage of the aircraft itself in the air Jamming or failure of controls Fire Powerplant failure […]
SMS vs the Management of Safety – what’s the difference?
By Colin Russell Throughout our industry, there is a perception that a Safety Management System (SMS) is some complex, burdensome and mythical beast; this new (or actually not so new) and shiny thing that we must bolt on to our organisations as an additional requirement, overtaking everything that has gone before it. It is another […]
What was the first regulation in powered aviation? – Friday Fact
Although Paris enacted a local ordinance in 1784 about balloon flights the first rule that we could identify as being a direct precursor to our modern regulatory set, came about as a result of the first fatal accident in powered aviation. In 1908, 4 years after their first flight, the Wright brothers were carrying out […]
Baines Simmons extends expertise with appointment of five new consultants
Baines Simmons, part of the Training & Consultancy division of global aviation services group Air Partner, has appointed five new consultants as it continues to extend and diversify the expertise it can offer its clients. All of these new additions to the team are based at Baines Simmons’ headquarters at Fairoaks airport and will report […]
Baines Simmons develops risk management course for Military Aviation Authority
Baines Simmons, part of the Training & Consultancy division of global aviation services group Air Partner, has developed an exclusive course for the Military Aviation Authority (MAA), entitled “MAA Air Safety Risk Assessment and Management Practitioners” (MASRAMP). Baines Simmons has had a contract with the MAA under the Defence Aviation Error Management Systems (DAEMS) programme […]
Baines Simmons contributes to EASA’s new Human Factors Collaborative Analysis Group (HF CAG)
Principal Consultant, Chris Drew, attended the inaugural meeting of the HF CAG on 1st March 2017 at the recently opened EASA building in Cologne. CAGs are a response by EASA’s Executive Director, Patrick Ky, to make more use of industry expertise to inform its safety risk portfolios and regulatory development activity. It is attended by […]