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Fundamentals: Safety Management System (SMS)
Fundamentals: Safety Management System (SMS)
Fundamentals: Safety Management System (SMS)
Administration
System (SMS)
Fundamentals
Why SMS?
What we understand:
Provides:
– A systematic way to identify and control risk.
– Assurance that risk controls remain effective.
– A formal means of meeting Statutory
requirements (Title 14)
– The FAA a means of evaluating an
organization’s safety management capability
FAA’s Safety
Roles, Responsibilities
Management
(Oversight)
and Relationships:
(SAS)
• FAA
• Service Providers
Operator’s Safety
Management Operators Services
System Operational Provided
(External SMS) Processes
…
Annual
40
Technical Factors
fatal 30
accident Human Factors1949 British Comet
rate
(accidents
per million
20
departures) Organizational Factors
10
1954 Boeing
0
59 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 07
Adapted from Boeing (2008) Year
Psychological
Decision-making
•Laws/Regulations
•Industry Standards
System/
Environment
Behavioral Performance
Responds to Analyzes
Actively identifies
events that have system
hazards
already processes and
through the analysis
happened, such as environment to identify
of the organization’s
incidents and potential future
accidents
processes
problems
SMS
Federal Aviation SL-26
Administration