December 05, 2022

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SMS for Aviation Service Providers – process review by Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) www.sassofia.com considering the four components of an SMS.

The benefits of an effective SMS

  • To promote a culture of total safety.
  • To encourage everyone in an organization to think, behave, and act with complete safety in mind.
  • Enables the operator to create a systematic way to categorize hazards and manage risks effectually.

SMS Components

1. Safety Policy — Establishes senior management’s commitment to continually improve safety; defines the methods, processes, and organizational structure needed to meet safety goals.

  • Establishes management commitment to safety performance through SMS
  • Establishes clear safety objectives and commitment to manage those objectives
  • Defines methods, processes, and organizational structure needed to meet safety goals
  • Establishes transparency in the management of safety

o Fully documented policy and processes
o Employee reporting and resolution system
o Accountability of management and employees

  • Builds upon the processes and procedures that already exist
  • Facilitates cross-organizational communication and cooperation

2. Safety Risk Management (SRM) — Determines the need for, and adequacy of, new or revised risk controls based on the assessment of acceptable risk.

  • A formal process within the SMS composed of:

o Describing the system
o Identifying the hazards
o Assessing the risk
o Analyzing the risk
o Controlling the risk

  • The SRM process may be embedded in the processes used to provide the product/service

3. Safety Assurance (SA) — Evaluates the continued effectiveness of implemented risk control strategies; supports the identification of new hazards.

  • SMS process management functions that systematically provide confidence that organizational outputs meet or exceed safety requirements
  • AVS SMS has a dual safety assurance focus:

o AVS organizations
o Product/service providers

  • Ensures compliance with SMS requirements and FAA orders, standards, policies, and directives

o Information Acquisition

– Audits and evaluations
– Employee reporting

o Data Analysis
o System Assessment

  • Provides insight and analysis regarding methods/opportunities for improving safety and minimizing risk
  • Existing assurance functions will continue to evaluate and improve service

4. Safety Promotion — Includes training, communication, and other actions to create a positive safety culture within all levels of the workforce.

  • Safety promotion activities within the SMS framework include:

o Providing SMS training
o Advocating/strengthening a positive safety culture
o System and safety communication and awareness
o Matching competency requirements to system requirements
o Disseminating safety lessons learned

  • Everyone has a role in promoting safety

Next Steps

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aviation, Aviation Risk, aviation safety, Aviation SMS, FAA, Hazards, Risk Management, Safety Assurance, Safety Risk Management, SMS, SRM