You are the owner of Acme Aviation Safety Consulting Service. You are offering free consultations to companies and individuals concerning the dynamics of aviation safety management. Your job is to respond to emails and answer any questions about safety management and SMS as a written reply.
Respond to the following message:
To: Acme Aviation Safety Consulting Services.
From: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Oui Salut,
I work as the new safety director here at Paris–Le Bourget Airport.
I am curious to know about the various SMS concepts that can be applied to risk management at an airport. Perhaps you can provide some analysis and examples, oui?
Au revoir,
- Antoine
Aviation Safety is very important because much more lives involve in Aircraft Operation . Safety mean things , risk should be controlled to an acceptable level . It is one of the important tool to look into investigation , categorization of flight failures.
Most important step is to protect this failures through regulation , education and training process
Aviation Safety management System ( SMS0 training course go into much detail bout “Continuous improvement “
Aviation SMS safety measurement process must be able to :
Define , develop and implement the process , finally determine and measuring key safety performance indicator
In business m while measuring SMS performance ,, there are certain limitation like :
Financial resources , shareholders profit and SMS Budget
Safety management task along with SMS performance includes – Organization goal , level of commitment to the SMS and Available resources
Under SMS System , safety measurement is an essential component , which cover following points :
Specific ,Measurable , Attainable , Realistic and Timely
Some time need to do gap analysis to ensure that an aviation SMS using an industry specific accepted model . This model based on / structured on base 4 Model , mainly :
Safety policy
Safety risk Management
Safety Assurance
Safety promotion
Safety Manager in certain case can not operate with a “ paper sms’ , They need to find out following details like :
Collect data , store data , set goal + Objective , measure of collect data and present data in a suitable format
SMS data implementation plan serve as “ insight “ regarding SMS data management strategy to demonstrate compliance for measure safety performance .
One of the important factor is support from Top management . Lack of top management support is major reaon to fail SMS
Manager need to ensure that every accountable executive is responsible for properly implement the SMS and make sure that SMS perform as per designed in all area of the Organization .
Sucessful implementation of SMS depend on Companies goal and objective
SMS success depends on following points :
Accountable executive priorities
Top Management support
Available Budget to manage SMS
Regulator compliance , governance
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