Think of an SMS program as active safety management. Credit: designer491/Alamy Stock Photo In November 2015, a chartered Hawker 700 stalled and crashed while on a non-precision approach to Akron, Ohio ...

The old NASA slogan "failure is not an option" is appropriate to describe the safety challenges faced by leaders of multinational companies. For an increasingly well-informed public, safety, health ...

Healthcare organizations can improve and sustain safety by borrowing safety management system principles from the defense nuclear industry, according to a perspective piece in the Joint Commission ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – The Army Materiel Command enterprise is undergoing a safety management system overhaul – important for the safety and health of its 165,000-strong workforce across ...

The use of helicopters has grown tremendously in the past 20 years. In particular, there has been substantial growth in the law enforcement and helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) sector of ...

Safety culture involves shared values, beliefs, and attitudes among organizational members in implementing safety policies ...

Aireon and Boeing announced a new agreement today that will add space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance data to the aircraft manufacturer’s internally operated ...

Embedding safety into your automated production processes from day one improves performance, reduces risk and drives ...

Global companies face global safety risks. That's one of the lessons learned after the 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, affected Union Carbide's worldwide operations. In part because of this global ...

The role of construction safety professionals has significantly expanded over the past decade. The industry employs thousands of safety professionals, most of whom work for contractors (general or ...