Achieve SMS Excellence
Safety Management Systems that align your organization, drive continuous improvement, and protect your reputation.
Industries We Serve:
Pipeline | Oil & Gas | Wind Energy | Part 135
Not Just Another Tool
If you think of SMS as a software program or a book of rules, you're missing out on its full potential to improve safety, drive efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance.
When implementing an SMS, watch out for these pitfalls:
1. Taking an outside-in or top-down approach instead of incorporating and securing the support of all key stakeholders.
2. Adopting an off-the-shelf program instead of working with experts to design a right-size program tailored to your risks.
3. Developing key components individually instead of integrating them into a holistic program.
4. Allowing your SMS to sit on a shelf instead of deploying its insights to drive continuous improvement.
The Right SMS Provides:
1. Peace of Mind: Know you'll pass your next audit when you can provide your auditors with the book on what you do, how you do it, and how you measure up.
2. A Path Forward: Drive continuous improvement by following your SMS insights on what will improve safety and operational efficiency.
3. Alignment: An SMS is woven into the fabric of an organization. Through its goal setting, planning, performance measurement, it becomes part of the culture and the way people do their jobs.
Industries We Support
Society continues to be less trusting and more demanding that organizations have plans to prevent major accidents. Fortunately, the aviation industry has spent 25 years honing its systems and paved the way with time-tested strategies that can be successfully adapted to other lines of work.
Our systems have been successfully implemented across a diverse range of industries, including private, commercial, and military aviation, onshore and offshore pipelines, oil and gas, and wind energy. This extensive experience enables us to harness the unique strengths of each sector, tailoring our SMS to fit your organization.
Pipeline
Lead the industry with an SMS that helps you manage your pipeline maintenance and replacement schedule with improved quality, reduced costs, and a safety record you can be proud of.
Energy
In an environment of increasing regulation, rapidly changing technology, and heightened scrutiny, your SMS allows your organization to navigate the changes with clarity.
Part 135
The FAA has ruled that all Part 135 commuter and on-demand operations need to have an SMS. Meet the regulation and pass your audits with confidence.
The Process
Achieving SMS excellence is a 4 step process that starts with 1) an audit to understand where you are now so that you can 2) design a right-size systematic, explicit and comprehensive process for managing safety risks and then 3) implement for maximum adoption of the SMS across the organization and 4) harvest the insights to improve safety and efficiency.
Audit
Compare safety and security requirements to your current performance.
Design
Create a system to identify hazards, control risks, and maintain assurance that these are effective.
Implement
Provide training & communication to ensure adoption of the SMS into existing processes and workflow.
Harvest
Monitor leading indicators and use the insights to address emerging weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Case Studies
Too many organizations have learned the hard way that an SMS is the best preventative tool they could have invested in. Our case studies highlight the ability of an SMS to drive safety improvements and achieve organizational business objectives.
9x INCREASE
IN NEAR MISS REPORTING
An audit revealed that the frontline hesitated to report near misses or incidents based on fear. We worked with leadership and the frontline developing trust in our investigation methodology that multiplied reporting by 9! This drastic improvement in reporting allowed 1,156 corrective actions that significantly lowered all safety metrics.
PASSED AUDIT
Our client applied for a Part 135 certification and needed a road map to build their safety management system.
Our team collected data, conducted interviews and gave our client a thorough road map to pass their first regulatory audit.
70% DECREASE
IN DROPPED OBJECTS
Our client had 127 dropped objects in one year. After studying the causes of their dropped object events, we made a systematic change to their safety system which lowered their dropped objects incidents by 70% in the first year!
Our success continued the following year with an additional reduction by 60%!
About Us
With a combined 70 years of experience in aviation, our leadership team has deep experience with the industry that led the SMS revolution. They've used these experiences to help oil and gas, pipeline, energy, and part 135/on-demand organizations improve safety, productivity, and quality to reduce costs and meet their business objectives. As designers, implementers, and users of SMS programs, they bring a unique perspective and valuable insights to accelerate and maximize your SMS adoption.
Regardless of your organization's size or sector, our team can design an SMS to align your operations, drive continuous improvement, and safeguard your reputation.
Meet our leadership team....
Andrew Dingee earned his “wings of golds” and the Joe Foss award for aerial combat maneuvers – dog fighting.
While at United Airlines he was promoted into a variety of safety leadership positions, was on their safety management system team, and became a qualified NTSB accident investigator. For his accomplishments, he was nominated for the Flight Safety Foundation Brownlow award.
In 2018, Andrew completed his book titled, “Delivering the Right Stuff”. His book highlights the journey on how the airline industry migrated away from blaming the individual to understanding why people make mistakes.
Recently, Andrew retired as the Chief Standards Officer for bpx energy. In this position, Andrew established the industry’s first standardization department charged with developing and maintaining execution excellence which drastically reduced HSE lagging indicators by 50% or more.
Sharon Lipinski, CEO and Founder of Habit Mastery Consulting, helps organizations increase their targeted safety behavior by up to 150%. Sharon's award-winning articles have appeared in EHS Today, Incident Prevention, and the Professional Safety Journal.
She is a Certified Gamification for Training developer, certified CBT for insomnia instructor, speaker, TV personality and coach dedicated to helping people create the right habits so they can be happier, healthier and safer at home and in their work.
She holds a Guinness World Record for the Longest Line of Toothbrushes—3.5 miles! This charity event collected 55,000 toothbrushes and 17,000 tubes of toothpaste for Colorado children.
Dave “Hero” Heronemus joined our team in 2012 and serves as our VP of Safety Auditing. Dave is a graduate of Maine Maritime Academy and a retired United States Marine Corps Aviator. He has been flying professionally for 34 years and has qualified in multi-engine turbo helicopters, turbo prop, and turbo jet aircraft.
He holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from Boston University and completed both the Aviation Safety Officers Course and the Aviation Safety Commander’s course at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey California.
Notable assignments include, Director of Operations, Aviation Combat Element, 11th Marine Expeditionary unit, Air Operation Officer, USS Bonhomme Richard, Director of Safety, Marine Corps Installations West, and War Game Director, United States Naval War College. Dave’s currently serves as Chief Pilot/Falcon 900 Captain for 247 Mesa LLC.
Contact Us
Contact us to find out how we can co-create and implement a customized, right-sized SMS solution that will improve safety, drive efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance.
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