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Baines Simmons Awarded Contract with the UK Civil Aviation Authority

Baines Simmons, part of the global aviation services group, Air Partner, a Wheels Up company, has been awarded a contract with the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) to develop and deliver a comprehensive eLearning programme for the entire UK flying display community.

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Who is Responsible for Compliance?

Compliance can encompass a wide range of areas, such as regulatory, corporate, industry specific, data privacy and security. Effectively, all of these can be described as meeting requirements or following/adhering to process.

Promoting a Unified Understanding of Human Behaviour: The Essence of Just Culture

Def Stan 00-056: Love it or hate it

The UK MAA have recently released revision 8 of RA1205, which regards Air System Safety Cases. The Safety Case owners now need to ensure compliance with RA1205, and this seems to be driving renewed interest in the role of Def Stan 00-056.

Design Organisation Approval: The Integration of Safety Management and Organisation Performance

The introduction of ICAO Annex 19 (Safety Management System) has provided a stimulus for Regulators (such as EASA) to move towards a “Performance Based Environment”. One of the intents of this initiative is for the Regulators to prioritise its resources where it is needed most.

Fatigue Risk Management for the UK Heavy and Light Rail Industry

This article provides a view on how those within the UK Heavy and Light Rail industry can act to improve the effectiveness of their FRMS, based on our years of experience supporting operators implementing FRMS.

Reliability Programme Skills

How do we define reliability? The regulations give us some guidance particularly Part M and Part CAMO. Put simply, an aircraft, system or component can be described as reliable, if under a defined operating environment...

Implementing SMS into the Ground Handling environment

Ground handling is a challenging environment with the difference between a planned, choreographed, coordinated “ballet” of movements around an aircraft during a smooth, efficient turnaround often a stark contrast to reality with delays, time pressure, lack of or the wrong equipment, staff...

Strategies for calming a racing mind when trying to sleep

Helping Part 145 and 21 understand how to build in SMS requirements for business performance

Our Services to Part 21 industry – the Safety Management Element

Part 21 industry, since 7th March 2023, is now implementing the Safety Management Element (SMe) as the latest regulation became applicable.

Dr Cristina Ruscitto, Senior Consultant, FRM, shares her experience of working in aviation

To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women of Aviation in Worldwide Week, we’ve asked Dr Cristina Ruscitto, Senior Consultant, Fatigue Risk Management, to share details of her experience of working in aviation.

Key takeaway from the EASA Certification Conference 2022

Consultant Jack Coleman shares his key takeaways from the EASA Certification Conference 2022, where the EASA Certification Directorate shared the latest updates on certification activities.

System Management into Part 21 – how are industry reacting?

The ICAO Annex 19 Safety Management System approach has been released against Part 21 legalisation. The aim of such, is to recognise the limitations of human and organisational performance.

A Holistic Approach to Risk

A Holistic Approach to Risk - article by Managing Director Ian Holder for IIRSM's member magazine

Tips for getting to sleep

Sleep is crucial and plays an important role in your physical and mental health. The amount of sleep you require can vary for different individuals but the amount of sleep you achieve in 24 hours can easily be affected by various factors.

How to change my sleep habits in order to get more sleep

Getting enough sleep (7-9 hours of sleep per 24-hour period1) is one of the best things we can do for our health, mood, and performance.

Jetlag - how best to reduce the symptoms and adapt your body clock

Every cell in our body has a natural circadian (24-hour) rhythm, which is controlled by our body clock, located in the brain.

The benefits of sleep for sporting performance

Research has shown that athletes who are able to sleep longer than the recommended amount, e.g. ‘bank’ or extend sleep by 1-2 hours a night, for a few days ahead of a competition, can optimise their performance.

How sleeping more can help me to become a better team leader

Team leaders have the capacity to lift up and support their team so they can reach their full potential. If you are a team leader, getting adequate sleep is an essential way you can stay strong for your team.

How to reduce the impact of nicotine on sleep

You can add ‘sleep better’ to the very long list of reasons to quit smoking. Similar to caffeine, nicotine is a stimulant, which people use because of its alerting properties.

Revenge bedtime procrastination

The term ‘Revenge Bedtime Procrastination’ originates from China where people can work a ‘996’ schedule, working 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. However, it’s a behaviour that many of us may recognise.

Daily routines and sleep

Over this last year, many of us have lost our usual daily routines, with no commute, lunchtimes with colleagues or clear time differences between office and home time.

Say goodnight to fatigue risk with new virtual training course from Baines Simmons

With the Covid-19 pandemic throwing traditional working patterns and staffing levels into disarray, particularly across the aviation industry, it’s never been more vital for employers to consider the impact of fatigue on their workforce.

Understanding the consequences of alcohol on sleep

Alcohol will make you sleepy, but you won’t sleep well for about an hour after your first alcoholic drink, your brain is stimulated to release dopamine, the so-called “happy hormone”.

Extended hours

In order to maintain a high level of alertness and performance, we are best suited to being awake for no more than about 16 hours following 8 hours of good quality sleep, although these values can differ slightly among individuals.

Managing driver sleepiness

Sleepiness contributes to approximately 1 in 5 fatal and serious road accidents. When we are feeling sleepy, for example after a night shift, driving is one of the most dangerous things we can do.

Sleep, wellbeing and the pandemic

Discussion of fatigue in aviation incidents is often focused on pilots and cabin crew, with less attention provided to maintenance engineers responsible for round-the-clock planned and reactive maintenance of aircraft.

Dying for a break? Human factors and fatigue management in the MRO sector

Discussion of fatigue in aviation incidents is often focused on pilots and cabin crew, with less attention provided to maintenance engineers responsible for round-the-clock planned and reactive maintenance of aircraft.

Expert advice on adapting body clocks, as daylight savings end

Our natural body clocks mean some people are naturally ‘morning types’ whereas others prefer evenings. For many people, the way their natural internal body clock is inclined can make the demands and schedules of work and lifestyles especially challenging.

What is social jetlag?

This holiday period may see fewer of us taking to the skies and therefore not experiencing the jetlag that comes with long-haul travel. However, there is another type of jetlag, social jetlag, which you can experience even if holidaying closer to home.

How to promote creativity and wellbeing through dreams

During a typical night’s sleep, everyone dreams but while some people easily and often remember their dreams, other people can’t recall their dreams.

Helping the C-Suite to Manage Fatigue in Challenging Times

Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact on businesses globally, with top C-suite executives having to make decisions that they might have never thought to have considered.