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 ...

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 U.S. NTSB first recommended that Safety Management Systems (SMS) be implemented by Part 121 airlines—something the FAA now requires—in 2007, then called for the same requirement for public ...

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 ...

EHS professionals are always trying to improve their workplace safety management programs, and implementing a safety management software system represents a major milestone along that journey. EHS ...

All agencies that receive Urbanized Area Formula Grants from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) have certified that their safety plans were in place by June 20, 2021, the deadline for FTA’s 2018 ...

Accelerated knowledge transfer aligned with scaled-up road safety investment will be central to overcoming country capacity weaknesses and achieving the ambitious Decade of Action goal to save five ...