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Risk Implementation Professional Services

Establishing risk management processes and a risk culture within your organization helps to create greater resilience. Strong risk management processes and understanding helps your organization capitalize on opportunity, drive business success through delivering objectives and, in doing so, increase stakeholder value.

Our professional services can help deliver successful risk management. Through our consultants and our global partner network, our consultancy ranges in scope from simply providing a software solution through to full facilitation and project management to deliver robust risk management across an organization. We will jointly assess how effective your organization’s current risk management processes are – as well as the level of understanding of risk management within your business. You, working with our team, can determine the status of your risk management, how effective your processes currently are and highlight areas of improvement that we can help with.

Over the last 20 years, our professional services organization has delivered many projects, and our global partner network is professionally trained to provide exceptional levels of customer service and support. This ensures we are well placed to offer international customers a level of service that is second to none.

Our consultants and partner network will be as active in your project delivery as you determine – which could simply be staged progress reviews through to a complete project management and successful conclusion. Initial and strategic reviews with our professional services organization helps to determine the scope of your risk management project, entering consultation to gauge your current risk management situation and reviewing your current level of understanding and consistency to provide a clear picture of what can be achieved. Deliverables and key milestones are identified and highlighted, taking into account resources and constraints along the way.

Q-Pulse Integration

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Q-Pulse Integration

Ideagen Gael Risk’s ability to integrate with Q-Pulse enables operational data held across the organization to be directly associated with:

  • Building confidence in the knowledge that your risk management system is effective.
  • Providing early warning indicators based on your risk management requirements and making the right preventive decisions before it is too late.
  • Linking Ideagen Gael Risk to Q-Pulse documents, assets, incidents and non-conformances to provide the information you need to assess your system.
  • Linking Ideagen Gael Risk to other operational systems that mitigate risk in your organization.

For example, when reviewing a risk control linked to a Q-Pulse procedure, Ideagen Gael Risk provides you with a summary that highlights key information such as:

  • Number of non-conformances
  • Last review date
  • Last audit date
  • How often updated
  • Number of people trained on this procedure

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This is key information that is vital to support any type of review.

Ideagen Gael Risk is an integrated solution providing comprehensive risk assessment, treatment and management across the whole organization.

 

 

Risk Integration

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Integration

An effective SMS Information Management solution has the ability and framework to be successfully integrated with other software systems – allowing organizations to link their existing business systems with the risk management solution.

The integration is achieved by utilizing APIs, allowing organizations to seamlessly operate a series of existing systems concurrently with the SMS Information Management solution for increased benefit. Indeed, if there is intelligent data being stored on a standalone system within your organization, it would make sense to integrate this system with a SMS Information Management solution.

An effective SMS Information Management solution can be integrated to ensure your risk management is effective and allowing you to make the right preventive decisions before it is too late. For example, when reviewing a risk control linked to a procedure, The SMS Information Management solution provides you with a summary that highlights key information such as non-conformances, review dates and audit dates and links to documents, assets, incidents and non-conformances to provide the information you need to assess your system.

 

 

Risk Value Creation

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Value Creation

Risk management has traditionally focused on Value Protection – taking steps to ensure something undesirable doesn’t happen. Yet the disciplines of risk management are ideal for identifying the contributing factors and how they ought to be managed to optimize performance – Value Creation

Risk Learning and Sharing

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Learning and Sharing

Lessons learned from incidents and near misses need to be shared across the organization. This can be very challenging in multi-national and geographically disparate situations and can leave organizations exposed if it can be proved that an incident could have been prevented, or would have been less serious, had the learning from a previous event been shared effectively.

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An effective SMS Information Management solution provides the ability to share learning and best practice in a controlled manner. This capability imust be two-way, allowing for command and control from a central location and also from the local autonomy where conditions differ from what is regarded as normal

Stand Up to Scrutiny

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Stand Up To Scrutiny

An effective SMS Information Management solution provides the ability to always be in a state of readiness and to provide confidence to regulators, customers and third parties that you are in control of your management system.

The SMS Information Management solution makes it easier to adopt risk management in all disciplines across the organization. It provides a consistent mechanism to manage risk effectively and efficiently

Risk management is an on-going process and there will always be actions to complete or improvements to be made.

AIN Online reports “Safety should be a core value for every business aviation operation, not just a priority,” according to Merlin Preuss, CBAA

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“Safety should be a core value for every business aviation operation, not just a priority, ” according to Merlin Preuss, CBAA

It’s wrong to label safety a priority, according to Merlin Preuss, vice president of government and legislative affairs for the Canadian Business Aviation Association. “That’s because it’s much too easy to change priorities as the world evolves,” he told last month’s Business Aviation Safety Seminar in Montreal (BASS).

 

 

Sextant Readings Solutions – aviation professionals with focus on Compliance, Quality Management and Quality Assurance, Safety and Risk Management for the Aviation Industry, is an IS-BAO Support Services Affiliate and IS-BAO safety consultant and Auditor

Good new book on the dangers of bureaucratization of your SMS. Reviewed by Rick Darby representing Flight Safety Foundation and Aerosafety World

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 Proceed With Caution

Is over-specification of procedures a potential safety hazard?

BY RICK DARBY representing Flight Safety Foundation and AeroSafety World

A Never-Ending Story

Trapping Safety into Rules: How Desirable or Avoidable is Proceduralization?

Bieder, Corrine; Bourrier, Mathilde (editors). Farnham, Surrey, England and Burlington, Vermont, U.S: Ashgate, 2013. 300 pp. Figures, tables, references, index.

Trapping Safety into Rules — there is a title as provocative as you are likely to see this year in books aimed at aviation safety professionals.

No one needs a definition of rules. Bieder and Bourrier describe “proceduralization” as “firstly, the aim of defining precise and quantified safety objectives, and secondly, the aim of defining a process, describing and prescribing at the same time how to achieve such objectives.” Unfortunately, “these two aspects are usually not defined by the same entity. Some inconsistencies may even exist between the two types of procedures.”

Questioning the role of rules and proceduralization goes to the heart of commercial aviation, one of the most heavily rule-bound industries. Almost every aspect of the industry is covered by regulations (a subset of rules), standard operating procedures, standards and best practices. Accident investigation reports usually conclude with recommendations for new regulations and procedures.

The remarkable safety record of the industry is due in large part to effective procedures. They are the result of lessons learned from accidents and incidents, as well as research and predictive analysis.

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Obama taps Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as Transportation Secretary

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President Barack Obama has tapped Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Anthony Foxx as the next Transportation Secretary.

Should the Senate approve of the nomination, Foxx will replace Ray LaHood, who decided to step down from his position near the end of January.

LaHood decided to stay on until a suitable successor was found and in the time since then has been very vocal about the state of decline American infrastructure has found itself in.

LaHood also took to his FastLane blog to discuss Foxx’s nomination calling him “the right man for the job.” LaHood pointed out pieces of Foxx’s experience that deal with specific infrastructure issues the country is currently facing, citing the Charlotte Streetcar Project, improvements made to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the expanded LYNX light rail system, freight and passenger rail upgrades and redesigned intersections on Interstate 85.

In response to his nomination Foxx said reaching across the aisle will be a priority under his oversight. “We must work together across party lines to enhance this nation’s infrastructure,” he said

BEST JETS INTERNATIONAL JOINS AIR CHARTER SAFETY FOUNDATION

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Alexandria, VA, April 18, 2013 — The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) is pleased to announce that Best Jets International is the newest charter operator to join the ACSF. Along with 101 other companies, Best Jets now supports the ACSF’s vision to enable on-demand air charter providers and fractional program managers to achieve the highest levels of safety in the aviation industry.

Best Jets, one of the first charter operators to participate in the ACSF Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP), offers aircraft management and charter services and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“Our company believes in safety as a core value in every aspect of our operations,” said Best Jets International Director of Operations, Larry Gregg. “We are extremely proud of our employee commitment to safety and quality.”

“Becoming a member of the Air Charter Safety Foundation and participating in our ASAP program affirms the importance that Best Jets has placed on safety in the workplace and for their clients,” said ACSF President Bryan Burns.