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Definition Safety
Category:
Management
Safety achievement is an essential domain of a Safety
Management System (SMS) as defined in ESARR 3 and Content
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comprises a set of organisational arrangements, processes source:
and systematic actions deployed to accomplish the
organisation’s safety objectives and achieve high safety Content
EUROCONTROL
standards. control:

According to ESARR 3 safety achievement is the “the result of

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processes and/or methods applied to attain acceptable or
tolerable safety.”

Objective
To set up dedicated specific arrangements and processes by
which the safety performance of the organisation is to meet
the desired safety standards.

Description
The modern management of safety of aviation operations
increasingly relies on a spectrum of dedicated organisational
arrangements, methods and processes to manage
proactively the risk. Worldwide, there is no uniform definition
of the set of arrangements, processes, methods and
procedures which, when applied in a consistent manner, will
ensure achievement of the organisation’s safety objectives.
The scope of Safety Achievement as defined
in EUROCONTROL ESARR 3 includes also the Safety Risk
Management component of the ICAO SMS Framework.

Safety Achievement Components

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The framework established by ESARR 3 is generic enough

and can be applied widely by the different aviation services
provider organisations. The Safety Achievement domain
includes the following components:

Competency - A set of organisational arrangements

ensuring that personnel are adequately trained and
competent for the job they are required to do, in addition
to being properly licensed if so required and satisfying
applicable medical fitness requirements.

SMS Organisational Structure - A safety

management function shall be identified with
organisational responsibility for development and
management of the safety management system.

Risk Management - A set of organisational arrangements,

processes, procedures and systematic actions ensuring
that safety risks are identified, adequately assessed and
mitigated to an appropriate level to guarantee a safe
aviation service.

Quantitative Safety Levels - Wherever practicable,

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quantitative approach is used to define and maintain the
safety levels as a set of numerical expressions for all
functional systems under the managerial control of the
aviation system provider.

Safety Occurrence Reporting - A set of organisational

arrangements and systematic actions (an occurrence
reporting system) designed to facilitate the collection of
information on actual or potential safety deficiencies.

Safety Occurrence Investigation - A process and systematic

actions ensuring that known operational and technical
occurrences, which are considered to have negative safety
implications, are investigated and analysed in order to
prevent their recurrence.

SMS Documentation - An organisational arrangement and

systematic actions ensuring that the SMS is developed and
operated as a documented system. The usual means for
documenting the SMS is the Safety Management Manual
(SMM) or equivalent documentation.

The Safety Achievement components are closely interrelated

and can not be implemented and applied in isolation. Only a
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consistent, integrated and systematic application of these

processes and procedures will help increase the aviation
system resistance to unsafe acts and hazardous conditions.

Further Reading
ICAO

ICAO Doc 9859 - Safety Management Manual, Third Edition

- 2013;

ICAO Integrated Safety Management website;

European Commission

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 of

17 October 2011 laying down common requirements for the
provision of air navigation services and amending
Regulations (EC) No 482/2008 and (EU) No 691/2010;

EUROCONTROL

EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement (ESARR3).

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Safety Management, Safety Management System

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