Fuzion Safety’s Subscriber Spotlight series highlights different subscribers of Fuzion Safety’s web-based platform for safety management systems (SMSs). The series aims to recognize our various valuable subscribers and the different ways the SMS platform is used.
This edition of Fuzion Safety’s Subscriber Spotlight features responses from Modesto Jet Center. Centrally located as the sole FBO on the Modesto City-County Airport-Harry Sham Field (KMOD), Modesto Jet Center has built a strong legacy for serving the Northern California region’s aviation clientele with superior services and customer care for more than 30 years. Today, Modesto Jet Center is building an even better full-service aviation company that is designed to create cost-effective solutions that deliver comfort, safety, and convenience. With 55 employees, Modesto Jet Center is a full-service aviation company and is proud to offer its customers a professional line services team at its AvFuel-branded FBO. Modesto Jet Center’s aircraft charter and management departments excel in finding new ways to solve transportation needs.
How do you use Fuzion Safety’s web-based platform for SMSs? Through our electronic web and smart device applications for the management of our Company-wide SMS program, reporting and tracking, record keeping, auditing, action planning, and risk mitigations. We plan on using the program for the pending full Part 135 SMS implementation requirements.
What do you consider the most useful part of the SMS platform? The ASAP module is the most useful and has the most value for our interactions with the FAA. This gives us confidence in transparency when working through operational issues with them. Internally, the hazard reporting has the most value in ensuring we are proactive in finding our program’s and operational latent risks.
Please identify a recent safety issue or problem you identified in your data: During a review of our Standard Operating Procedures through Fuzion Safety’s SMS reporting system, we found an SOP that was not clear and could have been misunderstood by flight crews that could have led to an incident. After review and discussion within our Safety Committee, we updated the SOP and are confident that we proactively averted any possible associated issue.
Please explain how you mitigated the issue or problem: We updated the Standard Operating Procedures, advised pilots through a change notice, and added a procedure to our pilot training program to maximize our risk-reduction process.
