Risk Management in Aviation Safety
Safety Management Systems (SMS)
Historically Significant Aviation Accidents
Human Factors in Aviation Safety
Common Acronyms in Safety
100

The FAA encourages pilots to use this tool which considers pilot, aircraft, environment, and external pressures to assess risk before flight.

What is the PAVE checklist?

100

The four key components of safety management systems are __________, __________, __________, and __________.

What is Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion?

100

In 1972, this flight crashed into the Florida Everglades after the crew became distracted by a faulty landing gear indicator light.

What is Eastern Air Lines Flight 401?

100

These are the two components of the James Reason Model.

What is Systems Approach and Persons Approach?

100

NIOSH

What is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health?

200

When a pilot continuously assesses risk throughout all flight phases, this is known as what type of risk management?

What is Continuous Risk Management?

200

Within safety risk management, hazards are analyzed for their likelihood and severity using this type of chart or tool.

What is a risk matrix?

200

This 1975 crash in Dallas Fort Worth was caused by a powerful microburst, leading to major advances in wind shear detection technology.

What is Delta Air Lines Flight 191?

200

While sitting in the exit row, the flight attendant talks about how to remove the over-wing escape hatch and to review the safety card in the backseat pocket of the chair in front of you. The emergency card is a component that fits into the __________ element of the SHELL Model.

What is "Software"?

200

OSHA

What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?

300

This decision-making process, promoted by the FAA, helps pilots continuously assess changing conditions in flight.

What is Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM)?

300

In a safety management system, this term refers to any condition or object with the potential to cause injury, damage, or loss.

What is a hazard?

300

In 1979, this DC-10 lost an engine during takeoff from Chicago O'Hare, resulting in 273 fatalities.

What is American Airlines Flight 191?

300

This conference was dedicated entirely to Human Factors (HF) and is seen as the turning point in official recognition of the importance of HF in air transportation.

What is the Istanbul Conference of 1975?

300

ASSP

What is the American Society of Safety Professionals?

400

The process of spotting possible hazards before they lead to incidents is called this.

What is hazard identification?

400

This type of safety reporting system encourages employees to report hazards and incidents without fear of punishment, helping build a strong safety culture.

What is a just culture reporting system?

400

In 2009, this Airbus A330 was lost over the Atlantic en route from Rio to Paris, after pitot tube icing led to unreliable airspeed data and aerodynamic stall.

What is Air France Flight 447?

400

Parallax is a problem related to viewing _______.

What is Angle?

400

ANSI

What is the American National Standards Institute?

500

This type of safety management anticipates and addresses issues before they cause harm.

What is Proactive Safety Management?

500

In a mature safety management system, data from audits, voluntary reports, and performance indicators are integrated into this type of feedback system to continuously improve safety performance.

What is a closed-loop safety assurance system?

500

This 2010 flight demonstrated exceptional crew resource management (CRM) when its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 (inboard, #2) engine exploded midair, crippling many systems shortly after takeoff from Singapore.

What is Qantas Flight 32?

500

These are Rasmussen's 3 types of human error.

What is skill, rule, and knowledge-based error?

500

IMSAFE

What is Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, Emotion

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