Facts of SkyWest Life
SkyWest partners with these four major airlines
What are United, American, Delta and Alaska?
A proactive approach that identifies and manages safety risks.
What is SMS?
SkyWest Airlines investigations are conducted to determine ________.
What is Root Cause of accidents and incidents
What does the acronym HFACS stand for?
What is the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System?
Just Culture balances this.
What is accountability?
When our Safety Performance is good, our ______ reflects that.
What is Operational Performance?
The four pillars or components of SMS.
What are Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion?
Root Cause analysis helps determine corrective action/recommendations to be implemented to minimize potential for _______.
What is reoccurrence of the event?
In Reason's Swiss Cheese model, what do the holes represent?
What are weaknesses in the defenses/failures?
In Just Culture, this behavior is not tolerated.
What is Reckless behavior
This is the understanding of how your everyday safety duties contribute to the overall safety of SkyWest Airlines.
What is Safety Ownership?
This SMS pillar ensures employees receive proper safety training and awareness.
What is Safety Promotion?
Company investigation policies and procedures are detailed in which manual?
What is the Investigations SP 5140?
What are the two types of Active Failures?
What Unsafe Acts and Preconditions for Unsafe Acts?
Bonus points for examples.
This type of error occurs when someone makes a mistake unintentionally.
What is human error?
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What was the closing SkyWest stock price on August 15, 2025?
Recommendations (developed after root cause analysis and the investigation is complete), typically include this process.
What is SRM?
A behavior where the level of actual harm determines whether discipline is imposed.
What is Severity Bias?
What are the two types of Latent Failures
What are Supervisory Failures and Organizational Influences?
Bonus points for examples.
Just Culture requires this...
What is trust
Where can I find SkyWest Safety Objectives and Goals?
What is SWOL>Operations>Safety>Resources?
Frontline employees provide critical safety data through what process?
What is Employee Reporting (IOR, SCR)?
Committing to this allows for crucial conversations.
What is Mutual Purpose?
Safety leaders create this to encourage open communication regarding safety concerns and human error.
What is TRUST
Bonus points for Just Culture
Who has accountability for safety?
What is the organization and the employees?
Bonus: Safety Ownership