Sofema Aviation Services takes a look at How SMS is developing. Introduction Safety Management System (SMS) has been officially around now for over 5 years – Is it doing what we (Industry) Want it to do? Well, that depends do you agree with the purpose of SMS? (Compliance or Risk?) Some senior people see SMS as…

Essentially the focus of SMS is not in fact compliance it is on Managing Risk and the Purpose of an SMS Audit is to consider Risk Safety management goes far beyond traditional compliance led approaches to auditing. The SMS approach was developed following the identification of shortfalls in the actual process of auditing – you…

Steven Bentley MD of Sofema Aviation Services offers the following viewpoint for consideration. A strong statement but is it fair? We all accept that SMS is a performance based rather than compliance based system – the problem is that the regulator does not ask the “right” questions. Simply you cannot audit a performance system with…

Sofema Aviation Services provides EWIS Training for Trainers Regulatory Exposure driven by lack of Awareness EASA Part 66 engineers are not automatically trained on the contents of CS25 (Note it is a 1000 page document) Consider the picture and the failure to identify potential exposure during routine aircraft inspection with devastating consequences. CS 25.1707 System…