Books
Aviation safety books written to be used at work
Two handbooks so far. One on third-party audits, one on Just Culture in unmanned aircraft operations. Both were written because the existing material assumed a safety department that most operators do not have.
Why these two subjects
Audits and reporting culture are where small organisations lose the most time for the least benefit. An audit arrives and three weeks disappear into assembling evidence that should have taken an afternoon. A reporting system exists on paper and produces four reports a year, none of them about anything difficult.
Neither problem is solved by more regulation reading. Both are solved by knowing what the auditor is actually looking for and what a report has to be protected from. That is what these books cover.
How they are written
Short chapters, worked examples, and checklists you can lift out. The regulatory references are there and are accurate, but they sit where you would look for them rather than at the front.
- Written for an operator or manager with other duties, not for a full-time compliance function.
- Every framework reference names the instrument, so you can go and read the source yourself.
- Examples are constructed to make a point, not lifted from any real client engagement.
Who they are for
- Operators facing a first third-party audit who want to know what will be asked and in what order before it is asked.
- Accountable managers in small organisations who hold safety, quality and operations at the same time and need the short path through each.
- Drone operators building a reporting system who want reporting that produces usable information rather than a folder nobody opens.
The books
Third-Party Audits Handbook
Preparing for, hosting and surviving a third-party audit: scope, evidence, findings, corrective action and the follow-up that closes it out.
Just Culture for UAS Operators
Building occurrence reporting and a reporting culture in an unmanned aircraft operation, including where the line between error and violation sits.
If the book leaves a question open
The books cover the general case. If yours turns out not to be the general case, describe it in a couple of sentences and we can work out whether it needs a conversation or a piece of work.
Get in touchFrequently asked questions
Do the books replace advisory work?
For a straightforward case, often yes, and that is the intention. A book cannot look at your specific operation, your airspace or your documentation set, so for anything contested the reading is a starting point rather than the answer.
Are the examples in the books real cases?
No. Every example is constructed to illustrate a mechanism. Nothing from a real engagement appears, named or disguised, because the material a consultant sees is not the consultant’s to publish.