Safety management is vital to keeping our skies safe. It involves managing your business activities and preventing accidents, injuries and minimising risk by applying:
It also includes identifying hazards that could cause harm, damage or injury, or have negative consequences such as bad weather, workload fatigue and lack of emergency equipment.
A Safety Management System (SMS) is an organised approach to managing safety and includes:
It should be tailored to the size and complexity of your organisation.
For an aviation SMS, you must include the 4 main components and 12 elements listed below:
You should also consider your implementation plan, how contractors and/or third parties use your system and specifically how you will conduct investigations.
You can read our setting up your SMS guide. This will help you prepare and develop your implementation plan. The first step in implementation is a gap analysis and The first step in implementation is a gap analysis and the SMS Gap analysis and implementation tool can help you conduct this. This tool is an editable electronic document.
Your SMS will be a living document that will grow and improve with your organisation.
You and your staff will need SMS training, this can be either internal or with an external provider. You should also create a safety management library within your organisation.
You can also provide SMS information in your organisation's:
