Safety performance indicators (SPIs) are essential to evaluating the success of an aviation organization’s safety management efforts, according to a speaker at Flight Safety Foundation’s 63rd annual Business Aviation Safety Summit (BASS), held in May in Chicago. And separate research shows significant variability in how individuals and organizations across the industry define and use SPIs and safety performance targets (SPTs).
In his BASS presentation, “Zooming in on Safety Culture — From Culture to Performance Indicators,” Christopher Young, director of safety solutions, Baldwin Aviation — Safety and Compliance, said, “Hope is not a method for success,” and added that SPIs can serve as a health check for organizations by showing them where they may be drifting from standards and processes that have been established to mitigate risk in operations.
Flight Safety Foundation also recognizes the importance of SPIs to safety management systems (SMS) and to monitoring a…
