Aviation Key Safety Performance Indicators (KPIs)
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| Aviation KPI Guide Operational Goals |
Whatever Key Performance Indicators your choose to adopt for your airline or airport, they must reflect important organizational goals. KPIs must be key to organizational success, and they must be quantifiable (measurable). Aviation Key Safety Performance Indicators may be long-term or short term (quarterly, semi-annual or annual). Which safety key performance indicators your organization targets and how they are measured should not change often in order for results to be compared with over time. Tracking KPIs over time helps identify trends and demonstrates improvements (or lack of).
Organizational goals for particular Key Performance Indicators may change as organizational goals change, or as you approach the completion of your goals. Therefore, don't feel that you have to be married to your chosen KPIs indefinitely.
Aviation Safety Performance Monitoring
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| Web Based Aviation Safety Software Tracks Goals |
Which aviation key performance indicators you configure or find of value will differ from your type of operations, whether you belong to flight ops or air traffic management, MROs, helicopter operators, etc. However, we have identified several safety performance indicators that are common across all airlines and airports and these are captured in SMS Pro's "Performance Monitoring" module.
For example, a most useful safety performance indicator is the financial data. How much money have all your safety-related issues cost your organization this year, last year, the last ten years? Or if you like, you may narrow down the financial safety performance indicator to determine which division in your organization costs the organization most in terms of safety, security, quality, compliance or environmental issues.
Most Common Aviation Safety Performance Indicators
Air traffic management key performance indicators vary little from the key performance indicators of airlines, airports, MROs & helicopter operators. For example, widely popular and acceptable KPIs include financial, aviation safety investigations, safety communications and types of issues reported (Safety, Quality, Security, Compliance and Environmental).Another useful tool to effectively identify your safety performance indicators are "Trending Charts." SMS Pro has very full featured aviation safety trending charts to allow you to visualize your aviation safety key performance indicators.
Purpose of Aviation Safety Key Performance Indicators
Many aviation professionals and SMS subject matter consultants have provided feedback into the development of SMS Pro's safety performance indicators that target useful aviation-related business processes at the management level. What follows are some safety key performance indicator metric that are tracked automatically be SMS Pro's Web based aviation safety software:General KPIs
In SMS Pro, these aviation safety key performance indicators may be filtered by year and division.
If you see an aviation safety key performance indicator missing from this list, please drop us an email at chowell@nwds-ak.com.
Other Lists of Key Performance Indicators
List of Key Performance Indicators for AirlinesList of Key Performance Indicators for Airports/Aerodromes
Other Learning Resources About Aviation KPIs for Airlines & Airports
Choosing Key Performance Indicators - Airlines and Airports5 Tips for Controlling Aviation Key Performance Indicators
7 Quick Tips for a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Strategy
4 Steps to Automate Key Performance Indicator KPI Monitoring
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