Aviation Key Safety Performance Indicators (KPIs)
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| Aviation KPI Guide Operational Goals |
Aviation key performance indicators or KPIs (also known in the industry as safety performance indicators) provide airlines and airports important metrics to improve their aviation safety record. Key Performance Indicators
measure organizations' critical success factors.
KPIs may differ depending on type of aviation organization, such as size
of airline, helicopter operations, air traffic control or MROs. An
important Key Performance Indicator for every airline or airport is the number of reported hazards, accidents and incidents during the year. This not
only measures the obvious, but also infers corporate safety culture or the
reporting culture of the individual airline or airport.
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 |
In
SMS Pro's Web based aviation safety management software, your organization creates goals and objectives based on
past performance. In SMS Pro's Goals & Objectives module, real time
statistics are generated so your organization can easily create
realistic goals and objectives based on real-time
aviation safety key performance indicators.
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 Airlines
List of Key Performance Indicators for Airports/Aerodromes
Other Learning Resources About Aviation KPIs for Airlines & Airports
Choosing Key Performance Indicators - Airlines and Airports
5 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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founded in 2003 by six software engineers, NorthWest Data Solutions (NWDS)
provides custom computer programming and systems design services. NWDS creates
many types of software, including e-commerce, financial, defense, engineering,
logistics, aviation and more. In 2007, NWDS developed SMS Pro™ a web based SMS
application that supports an organization's overall SMS through safety
reporting, safety documentation, safety risk management and safety assurance.
SMS Pro™ is currently used by aviation organizations in the U.S., Canada, Asia,
Latin America, Africa and the Middle East to help manage their SMS programs.
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contract programming services in the U.S. and Canada and is managed by Chris
Howell, one of the founders. Their headquarters is in Anchorage, Alaska. For
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