Vanguardia, Robert John T.

12- Zeppelin

1. What is the 4 components of SMS and explain each?

- The 4 components of SMS are Safety policy and objectives, Safety risk management,
Safety assurance, and Safety promotion. Safety policy and objectives is the first important
milestone of SMS implementation that defines the value of safety in the overall business
and performance framework of the organization, Safety risk management means describing
the system, identifying the hazards, assessing the risk, analyzing the risk, and controlling
the risk. Safety assurance is all planned and systematic actions necessary to afford
adequate confidence that a product, a service, an organization or a functional system
achieves acceptable or tolerable safety. And the last is the Safety Promotion, it is the
processes and procedures that ensure that personnel are trained and competent to perform
their safety management duties and allow for communication of safety issues among
operational personnel and with the organization’s management.