International Helicopter Safety Team Safety Management System Toolkit

Objectives:
As your plan develops, you get more and more
specific. The next step is to define objectives toward
meeting the safety goals. For example, to meet the
goal of reducing damage and injury incidents by 50
percent, one objective could be: Flight Operations
and Aircraft Maintenance – develop and implement a
plan to eliminate ground damage to aircraft.
List three objectives you want to establish to accomplish
your first goal:
1.
Select one of the objectives you wrote. Now, develop
action steps that might be taken to support your
objective:
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Action Steps:
Action steps are the tasks individuals carry out to
meet defined objectives. Action steps often have
specific dates and times assigned for completion.
Some examples of actions steps for the “ground
damage to aircraft objective” might be:
6.
Review data on previous incidents and
identify trends.
Survey the current procedures for weaknesses.
7.
Develop recommendations for improving procedures,
including additions to training plans.
Establish a timeline for implementation with all
actions completed within 120 days.
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