PHI, Inc. remains committed to affecting change as it relates to safety across a wide spectrum of areas, including meaningful work with the connection of safety and human performance improvement. The company, with its established and well recognized safety management system (SMS), announced the introduction of the “human dimension of safety” as the fifth pillar of its SMS.
Complimentary to the SMS models of our customer and regulatory partners in safety, this new pillar directly influences the safety and well-being of employees by focusing on areas affecting the human condition, including significant study and understanding of the brain, fatigue management, fear mitigation and behavioral hiring. Additionally, this new pillar will house PHI’s initiatives on life-saving thinking, life-saving behaviors and destination zero.
Lance Bospflug, president and chief operating officer, PHI, Inc. shared, “We have made an unequivocal commitment to pushing the boundaries of our safety management system. As part of that commitment, we have continued to make significant investment in the exploration of the human factors that most determine the ability to be safe. The introduction of the human dimension of safety is an acknowledgment of the important and ever increasing role that we as individuals play in the “safety equation.”
PHI’s fifth pillar will elevate the importance of individual consciousness, awareness and preparedness, placing the human dimension at the heart of its SMS. The human dimension of safety will humanize safety by exploring mental and physiological states, physical well-being and the environmental impact of decision-making as it relates to safety. By introducing the human dimension as the fifth pillar and putting it on the level of the four existing pillars (safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance and safety promotion), PHI is acknowledging it as a core component of its SMS for generations to come. We believe this addition to our SMS will make it more meaningful for our employees, our company and hopefully for the helicopter industry as a whole.
