Aerospace & Defense EHS & Safety Management Software

One unified platform. Connected visibility across aerospace safety, compliance, incidents, inspections, hazards, and corrective actions.

Aircraft manufacturing plants, defense component manufacturers, maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities, and assembly operations manage safety risks across specialized processes, equipment, chemicals, employees, and contractors.

Dexur EHS connects incident reporting, inspections, investigations, compliance records, and corrective actions so safety teams can follow an issue from its first report through verified closure. Give EHS leaders a consistent view of what happened, where risk is increasing, and which actions require attention across facilities and programs.

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From report to resolution

Manage Aerospace Safety From Incident to Action

Aerospace safety conditions change across production stages, maintenance activities, work cells, and shifts. A composite layup area presents different exposure concerns from a machining cell, paint booth, aircraft assembly station, or maintenance hangar.

Safety teams must coordinate chemical handling, machinery safeguards, energy isolation, elevated work, confined-space entry, ergonomic controls, and contractor activities. Resolving one finding may require involvement from operations, maintenance, industrial hygiene, engineering, and EHS.

When inspection findings, exposure concerns, incident reports, and corrective actions remain in separate spreadsheets or systems, teams can lose visibility into ownership, deadlines, and whether controls were verified.

Identify High-Risk Conditions Across Aerospace Operations

Common concerns include:

  • Solvent, coating, resin, and adhesive exposure during preparation, application, cleaning, and composite work
  • Restricted access and hazardous atmospheres during aircraft tank or other confined-space work
  • Falls from aircraft access platforms, maintenance stands, ladders, and elevated assembly areas
  • Contact with cutting tools, rotating machinery, sharp components, and inadequately guarded equipment
  • Unexpected equipment startup or release of stored electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or mechanical energy
  • Repetitive tasks, awkward postures, overhead work, and manual handling during assembly and maintenance
  • Noise exposure from machining, riveting, grinding, and testing activities
  • Hazardous material movement, storage, waste handling, and spill response
  • Overlapping employee and contractor activities in active production areas

Connect Each Finding to the Work Required to Resolve It

Dexur EHS connects the safety workflow:

  1. 01

    Identify

  2. 02

    Investigate

  3. 03

    Prioritize

  4. 04

    Assign

  5. 05

    Correct

  6. 06

    Verify


Each reported issue can be connected to its location, task, equipment, contributing factors, responsible owner, corrective action, due date, and supporting evidence.

A ventilation concern in a coating area can move from an inspection finding to an assigned maintenance action and documented verification. A machining near miss can be linked to an investigation, a guarding correction, and follow-up inspections.

Safety leaders can review both what was reported and what happened next.

One unified platform

Connect Core EHS Workflows Across Aerospace Facilities

01 / INCIDENTS

Incident & Near-Miss Management

Capture injuries, illnesses, chemical exposures, equipment damage, and near misses across manufacturing, assembly, and MRO operations.

Connect the initial report to the investigation, contributing factors, corrective actions, and closure evidence. Maintain a consistent event history when multiple departments or contractors are involved.

Aerospace use cases include:

  • Chemical splashes during solvent transfer or coating preparation
  • Near misses involving aircraft access platforms
  • Machining lacerations and unexpected equipment movement
  • Ergonomic injuries during repetitive assembly work
  • Dropped tools or components during elevated maintenance
02 / INSPECTIONS

Inspections & Hazard Management

Standardize inspections across production areas, maintenance bays, equipment, and contractor work locations.

Document findings, classify risk, assign ownership, and track the actions required to address unsafe conditions. Connect recurring findings to their equipment, work area, or process.

Inspection areas can include:

  • Machine guarding and energy-control arrangements
  • Composite processing and local exhaust ventilation
  • Paint booths, chemical storage, and spill controls
  • Aircraft access stands and fall-protection equipment
  • Confined-space entry equipment and documentation
  • Lifting devices, material handling, and housekeeping
03 / COMPLIANCE

OSHA Compliance & Records

Organize safety documentation around the programs and requirements applicable to each facility and activity.

Connect incidents, recordability reviews, inspections, training documentation, permits, and corrective actions so teams can retrieve the evidence supporting compliance activities.

Aerospace use cases include:

  • OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping
  • Hazard communication and safety data sheet records
  • Lockout/tagout procedures and inspection findings
  • Confined-space entry documentation
  • Respiratory protection and hearing conservation records
  • Internal audit findings and follow-up evidence
04 / CORRECTIVE ACTIONS

Corrective Action Management

Manage actions originating from incidents, inspections, audits, exposure assessments, and contractor events in one workflow.

Give each action an owner, priority, due date, status, and verification requirement. Maintain visibility into overdue work and the evidence supporting closure.

Typical actions include:

  • Repairing or replacing a machine guard
  • Revising an equipment-specific energy-isolation procedure
  • Addressing a ventilation deficiency
  • Improving access-platform arrangements
  • Redesigning an assembly task to reduce ergonomic strain
  • Correcting chemical labeling or storage deficiencies

Finding → Priority → Owner → Due Date → Correction → Verification → Closure

Aerospace Incident Reporting, OSHA Compliance & Operational Reports

Capture the Events That Matter in Aerospace Operations

Maintain a consistent reporting process across aircraft manufacturing, defense component production, assembly, and maintenance.

Incident and near-miss categories can include:

  • Chemical splashes, skin contact, and inhalation exposures
  • Solvent, resin, adhesive, and coating spills
  • Falls from height and access-platform near misses
  • Slips and trips around tooling, hoses, cables, and work stands
  • Machining cuts, punctures, and lacerations
  • Caught-in, caught-between, and struck-by events
  • Unexpected energization or release of stored energy
  • Confined-space entry events and permit deviations
  • Ergonomic injuries associated with repetitive or awkward tasks
  • Noise-related exposure concerns
  • Dropped objects and lifting incidents
  • Fires, overheating events, and flammable-material concerns
  • Aircraft, tooling, facility, or equipment damage
  • Contractor incidents and near misses during overlapping work

Capture the Operational Context Behind Each Report

A useful incident record should explain the work being performed and the conditions surrounding the event.

Capture:

  • Facility, department, work cell, hangar, or maintenance bay
  • Date, time, shift, and task
  • Employees, witnesses, and contractors involved
  • Equipment, tooling, aircraft work area, or component involved
  • Chemicals and materials associated with the activity
  • Injury, illness, exposure, or damage details
  • Immediate response and temporary controls
  • Photographs, statements, and supporting documents
  • Relevant procedures, permits, and training records
  • Investigation findings and contributing factors
  • Corrective actions, responsible owners, and due dates

Connect Investigation to Verified Closure

Incident → Investigation → Contributing & Root Causes → Corrective Actions → Responsible Owners → Due Dates → Verification → Closure → Trend Review


This connected history helps teams determine whether the response addressed the underlying issue.

For example, closing a chemical-splash case should include reviewing the transfer method, equipment, handling procedure, and protective measures identified during the investigation. Follow-up findings can then show whether the same issue appears elsewhere.

Organize Records Around Applicable OSHA Requirements

Aerospace manufacturing and maintenance activities generally fall under 29 CFR Part 1910, General Industry. Facility construction activities may fall under 29 CFR Part 1926, depending on the work performed.

Relevant standards and programs include:

Standard Aerospace & Defense Application
29 CFR 1910.1200 Hazard Communication Composite resins, chemical milling agents, paint and coating solvents, hydraulic fluids, and cleaning chemicals used in manufacturing and MRO
29 CFR 1910.146 Confined Spaces Aircraft fuel tanks, wing structures, fuselage sections, and enclosed assembly fixtures requiring confined-space evaluation
29 CFR 1910.147 Lockout/Tagout CNC machining centers, robotic assembly cells, hydraulic presses, autoclave systems, and test equipment
29 CFR 1910.134 Respiratory Protection Composite grinding and sanding, paint spraying, chemical milling, and isocyanate-containing coating applications
29 CFR 1910.95 Noise Exposure Riveting, drilling, grinding, and engine test cell operations
29 CFR 1910.212 Machine Guarding CNC machines, robotic welding and assembly cells, drilling and riveting equipment
29 CFR 1910 Subpart D Walking-Working Surfaces Elevated assembly platforms, aircraft docking structures, hangar floor surfaces, and rooftop access
29 CFR 1910.119 PSM Chemical milling operations using sodium hydroxide or nitric acid solutions meeting PSM threshold quantities
29 CFR Part 1904 Recordkeeping All recordable injuries and illnesses across manufacturing, MRO, and flight-line operations

Maintain Supporting Compliance Records

Connect compliance activities with:

  • Recordability decisions and supporting incident information
  • Required injury and illness records
  • Chemical inventories and safety data sheets
  • Equipment-specific lockout/tagout procedures
  • Confined-space evaluations and entry records
  • Inspection and audit results
  • Relevant training and qualification documentation
  • Exposure assessments and control follow-up
  • Contractor safety documentation
  • Corrective-action evidence and verification records

Track defense contract safety obligations against the applicable contract, customer, and program requirements.

Generate Reports That Support Follow-Up

Operational reports should help teams identify work requiring attention.

Examples include:

  • Incident and near-miss trends by facility, process, task, and shift
  • Chemical exposure events by material and operation
  • Repeat findings involving machinery, ventilation, or access equipment
  • Open investigations and incomplete follow-up
  • Overdue corrective actions by owner and risk priority
  • Inspection completion and unresolved findings
  • Contractor event summaries and action status
  • OSHA recordkeeping review status
  • Environmental incidents and permit-related findings

See Where Risk Is Concentrating Across Aerospace Operations

Individual reports provide part of the picture. Recurring findings across equipment, work cells, contractors, and facilities can reveal broader control problems.

Dexur EHS connects incident, inspection, hazard, and action information so teams can review patterns across:

  • Manufacturing plants, assembly facilities, and MRO sites
  • Departments, production cells, and maintenance bays
  • Machines, tooling, lifting devices, and access equipment
  • Chemical handling, coating, and composite processes
  • Shifts, task types, and contractor activities
  • Contributing factors and recurring causes
  • Open, overdue, and previously closed actions

Ask Practical Questions About Unresolved Risk

  • Which facilities have unresolved high-priority hazards?
  • Which machines appear repeatedly in guarding or energy-control findings?
  • Are chemical exposure events concentrated in particular coating or cleaning tasks?
  • Which assembly activities generate recurring ergonomic concerns?
  • Are fall hazards recurring around the same aircraft access arrangements?
  • Which contractors have repeated permit or work-coordination findings?
  • Which issues recur after corrective actions are marked complete?
  • Where are overdue actions leaving temporary controls in place?

Prioritize Work Using Severity, Exposure, and Control Status

Review findings using the potential consequence, likelihood, frequency of exposure, existing controls, and status of corrective work.

A low injury count does not establish that high-consequence hazards are controlled. Unresolved energy-isolation deficiencies, confined-space concerns, and fall hazards require visibility even when no injury has occurred.

Inspections + Hazards + Near Misses + Incidents + Exposure Findings + Action History
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Identify Recurring Conditions
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Prioritize High-Risk Work
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Assign and Implement Controls
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Verify Effectiveness and Monitor Recurrence

Measure Aerospace Safety Performance and Follow-Through

Combine injury outcomes with indicators showing whether inspections, reporting, and corrective work are functioning as intended.

Use consistent definitions, reporting periods, and exposure measures when comparing facilities or contractors.

KPI What to measure Aerospace application
OSHA TRIR and DART Rate Recordable cases and cases involving days away, restricted work, or job transfer, normalized using the applicable hours worked. Compare injury and illness outcomes across plants and MRO facilities while considering workforce size and operating context.
Near-Miss Reporting Frequency Reports over time, with task, shift, location, and exposure context. Review reporting around assembly, machining, lifting, aircraft access, and maintenance. An increase can reflect improved reporting participation.
Inspection Completion Rate Planned inspections completed by their scheduled deadlines. Monitor coverage of machinery, paint booths, chemical storage, access platforms, and contractor work.
Open High-Priority Hazards and Chemical Exposure Incidents Unresolved serious hazards and reported chemical exposure events, tracked separately by category and status. Identify outstanding fall, energy-control, confined-space, ventilation, and chemical-handling concerns.
On-Time Corrective Action Closure and Time to Verified Closure Actions verified by their due dates, overdue action counts, and elapsed time from assignment to verification. Determine whether guarding repairs, ventilation improvements, and procedure changes are completed and checked promptly.
Repeat Finding Rate Findings recurring after previous correction or across comparable work areas. Identify persistent machinery, ergonomic, chemical-storage, and permit-control problems.
Contractor Safety Performance Contractor incidents, near misses, inspection findings, and action closure, with appropriate exposure context. Review MRO vendors, construction contractors, specialist service providers, and defense subcontractors.

Give Each Safety Role a Clear View of Required Work

Corporate EHS Leaders

Compare performance across aircraft manufacturing plants, defense component facilities, assembly operations, and MRO locations.

Review:

  • Incident trends and significant events
  • High-priority hazards and recurring findings
  • Corrective-action completion and overdue work
  • Inspection coverage and compliance activities
  • Contractor safety performance
  • Chemical exposure and environmental concerns
  • Differences in performance across facilities and programs

Move from enterprise summaries to the records and actions driving the results.

Facility Managers and EHS Managers

Monitor the conditions and activities requiring attention at a specific location.

Track:

  • New incidents and near misses
  • Open investigations
  • Upcoming and incomplete inspections
  • High-risk findings and temporary controls
  • Overdue corrective actions
  • Chemical exposure follow-up
  • Contractor work and unresolved safety concerns
  • Compliance documentation and review deadlines

Coordinate follow-up across operations, maintenance, engineering, industrial hygiene, and EHS.

Supervisors

See the findings, tasks, and deadlines associated with their work cells, departments, maintenance teams, and shifts.

Review assigned actions, document completed corrections, provide supporting evidence, and identify work requiring escalation.

Maintain continuity when an unresolved issue passes between shifts or requires support from another department.

Follow the Operational Hierarchy

Organization

  1. Enterprise
  2. Region
  3. Facility

Operations

  1. Department
  2. Safety Program

Follow-Through

  1. Incident / Inspection / Hazard
  2. Corrective Action

This structure connects enterprise performance with the specific conditions, people, and work behind each measure.

One Event. One Connected Record. One View of Risk.

Aerospace and defense safety management requires coordination across precision manufacturing cells, flight-line operations, MRO bays, chemical processing areas, and external defense subcontractors — where a single unresolved finding can affect production schedules, OSHA compliance status, and defense contract requirements simultaneously.

A unified EHS platform connects the original report, investigation, compliance documentation, corrective work, and verification history so teams can follow the complete record.

Connect Fragmented Safety Information

Bring incidents from machining cells, chemical processing areas, hangar floors, and MRO bays into a shared workflow. Reduce the manual effort required to reconstruct a composite exposure event or fall-from-height investigation from records stored across separate departments.

Clarify Ownership Across Departments

Identify who owns each investigation, machine-guard repair, energy-isolation procedure revision, and verification step across EHS, manufacturing engineering, maintenance, and defense-program management. Maintain accountability when corrective work crosses department boundaries in complex aerospace programs.

Prioritize Overdue and High-Risk Work

Review unresolved actions alongside their risk priority and control status. Distinguish routine follow-up from work addressing serious chemical exposure risks, confined-space entry deficiencies, fall-protection gaps, or energy-isolation failures in aerospace manufacturing and MRO environments.

Support Compliance Reviews With Connected Evidence

Link the original finding — whether from an OSHA inspection, internal audit, or defense-customer safety review — to the response, completion date, responsible owner, and verification evidence. Make supporting records easier to retrieve for OSHA 300/300A reviews, respiratory-protection program audits, and defense-contractor safety assessments.

Identify Recurring Problems Across Facilities

Review whether similar issues appear across different manufacturing plants, assembly cells, paint and coating operations, MRO facilities, or contractor activities. Use shared findings to drive consistent improvements in chemical handling, fall protection, and machinery safety programs across the enterprise.

Verify That Corrective Actions Addressed the Issue

Document what changed in the procedure, equipment, or work arrangement, and how effectiveness was verified. Monitor subsequent inspection findings and incident reports to determine whether chemical exposures, machinery injuries, or fall-from-height events recur in the same work area or activity.

Connect Enterprise Visibility to Daily Work

Give corporate EHS leaders a view across all aerospace facilities and programs, while giving facility managers and supervisors the action-level detail they need to manage daily compliance, inspection schedules, and open corrective work in their specific manufacturing or MRO environment.

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