Safety Chats Podcast

Finite games have a beginning, an end, and a winner (think baseball, basketball, poker). Safety is not one of these. Safety is an infinite game. A game with no end and no winner. We may never finish …

When we outsource part of our flight department's services, rather that be maintenance, FBO, catering, etc,  we inevitably lose oversight of the task. Today we look at what we can be doing to ensure …

There are safety related events your organization has little or no direct control over but you CAN influence them. Think unstable approaches, misfuellings, altitude excursions, etc. In this episode w…

As we near the six month point of 2022 it's a good time to look at how your organization is doing on its objectives. Now may be a great time to go back and look at the effectiveness of the objectives…

Have we turned a blind eye to things we know need to be addressed? In this week's podcast we explore why all of us can be guilty of being willfully blind to change we know needs to take place and wha…

How will you deal with someone who willing violates an SOP? If we hold the organization accountable for the systems they design it must also hold true that employees should be held accountable for th…

Accidents are intrinsically filled with emotion and we need to ensure we have a thorough plan so we can respond appropriately.  This week we remind ourselves not only of the importance of having an e…

With so much new information coming across your desk each day how do you sift through the noise and incorporate the necessary changes without being baited by every shiny new idea? This week we look s…

This week Jason interviews Mark Myers, Sr. Safety Manager at Baldwin, on the floor of AUVSI XPONENTIAL Convention in Orlando. Join them as they discuss the differences between traditional fixed wing …

In this episode we interview the guys at JumpSeat Ops and discuss their new app founded on the idea of pilots sharing information in real time about the airports and events they encounter. We also di…

Two things we don't hear in the same conversation very often is safety and sustainability. In this episode we interview one of our Baldwin team members and take a look at the correlation that does ex…

This week we take a look at the question "What if?" and its ability to help unravel complex situations. We can use the question to help us get a sense of how a failure, event or action could play out…

We have seen a number of changes to most aspects of our lives in the last few years. In this episode we discuss the way you can manage the changes your organization is facing or will face. When thing…

This week we talk about safety capacity and what we are measuring ourselves against when we say we are achieving safety. If we find ourselves focused on the outcome and we don't focus on how work is …

The Flight Risk Assessment Tool is in practical terms a preflight evaluation of potential threats but in an effort to assist our crews, are we overwhelming them with information? In this episode we a…

We can be so focused on getting the components and elements of our safety management system in place that we can easily miss the human element - arguably the ultimate reason we have a  safety program…

Does a small operator need the same SMS as an airline? A robust safety management system is scalable from a single pilot to enterprise operation. In this episode we discuss the true scalability of SM…

Who in the organization has the authority to accept risk on behalf of the organization? Is the risk you encounter acceptable, tolerable (as low as reasonably practical) or unacceptable? Leadership mu…

One of the things we do at the beginning of the year is look at our personal and organizational objectives. In this episode we discuss safety objectives - "the stuff we are gonna do to improve safety…

It is known that employee buy-in to the Safety Management System is an essential element for the system to work but how can it be achieved? Could there be a relation between leadership style and safe…