AVIATION SAFETY NEWSLETTER 2018 Edition; Issue No.

1, January 2018

Gulf Wings as part of its SMS Implementation Plan is

From the Accountable Manager’s Desk  committed to producing Hazard Identification and Risk
Assessment schemes for each department in line with GCAA
guidance to involve all line personnel in order to encourage
”Welcome to our first edition of the Aviation Safety their contribution. This is currently under discussion.
Newsletter, an initiative intended to further highlight, and
strengthen our commitment to Safety. As a company that
prides itself in being IS-BAO stage III approved and a Wyvern
Wingman Operator, we have a burden to live up to these
standards which regardless of the name not only require SMS
to be at the heart of everything we do, but also require us to
have and demonstrate a pattern of continuous SMS
development and growth. And, while we have every reason to
celebrate achieving our safety targets of 2017 with
encouraging managerial involvement and reporting, further
investigation has revealed a limited level of engagement and
reporting within non-managerial staff levels which for 2018 we
plan to encourage and improve via a combination of industry
prescribed and other creative methods. In the end I would like
to ask each and every one of you to never let the glamour of
our business overshadow safety. Remind yourselves every day
of how precious the lives of our passengers are as we fly them Success Is Enemy of Aviation Safety
at those magnificent altitudes and speeds and as with AINsight: Success Is Enemy of Aviation Safety (by Stuart “Kipp”
everything related to SMS, your involvement is at the heart of Lau)
any success we achieve. Seek safety because it will not come https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/blogs/ainsight-
to you.” success-enemy-aviation-safety

This article has been recommended by our AM/MD. It is very

 interesting reading and I quote from it;

Safety Risk Management
In a recent Risk Management Workshop, the GCAA provided
some guidance on Safety Risk management.
Safety Risk Management
There are three types of safety risk management:
1. Time Critical Safety Risk Management: Should be used
during daily decision making.
2. Deliberate Safety Risk Management: Used during
planning tasks and activities in all departments.
3. Formal Safety Risk Management: Used by Managers
during system design and management of change.
“As the new year rolled in, several headlines pointed to 2017
as the safest year in U.S. commercial aviation history. All told,
according to one report, on January 1, 399 days had passed
without a single fatal commercial passenger jet accident.
Another report, this one focusing on U.S.-registered business
jets, noted a 62.5 percent reduction in fatalities in 2017. Great
news, right?
As an aviation safety professional, I celebrated these
accomplishments for about a millisecond. Perhaps I’m jaded or
have become a bit of a “safety contrarian,” but these reports
add fuel to the argument that “we’re already safe”—an excuse
that some use for no action. The reality is that we will never be
100 percent safe. Day in and out, there is continued evidence
that many threats, hazards, and other latent conditions remain
prevalent in our system.”

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Safety Leadership Favourite Quote from Success Is Enemy of Aviation Safety:

The following article (courtesy of the AM/MD) regarding Safety “today’s Swiss cheese is much more resilient with thicker slices
leadership in the flight department applies not only to and smaller holes, but yet there are still holes”
flight/ground operations but to every department in Gulf
Wings.
https://www.avbuyer.com/articles/business-aviation-
The Aviation Safety Newsletter will be issued Quarterly (January, April, July and
safety/safety-leadership-in-the-flight-department-111971 October) to promote safety. Your contributions are always welcome, email them
to sms@gulfwings-fze.com.
The Safety Leader does not have to be the Department
Manager (though s/he should lead by example). Every member
of the Department is responsible for leading progress in safety
within their areas of responsibility. It is imperative that each
member of the staff contribute to the promotion of safety by
reporting what they perceive as a hazard before it becomes an
occurrence or an incident/accident.

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