Steve Bentley CEO of SAS (www.sassofia.com) considers how we can effectively assess the performance of a Safety Management System (SMS) Introduction Quality Assurance Audits are essentially prescriptive or compliance-driven means that there is a standard against which we are assessing conformity, any deviations are written up as a finding or a corrective action. Safety Assurance…

The process of mitigating safety risks is the method by which the organisation is able to take an action or a range of actions which provides for a lowering of exposure in respect of the perceived risk. The elimination and/or mitigation of the perceived risk to a level which we calculate to be as low…