Safety Management System



 SMS provide a means of achieving enhanced safety performance which meets or exceeds basic compliance with the regulatory requirements associated with safety and quality. It is a well-established fact that enhanced safety performance is founded upon a proactive safety culture inherent in all the organisation’s safety-related activities. 

A corporate approach to safety must be able to meet the following criteria:

• Published safety accountabilities of managers and key staff
• Requirements for a safety manager
• The ability to demonstrate that it generates a positive safety culture throughout the organisation
• Documented business policies, principles and practices in which safety is inherent
• Commitment to a safety oversight process which is independent of line management
• Regularly reviewed safety improvement plans
• Formal safety review process


The second essential prerequisite is for an organisation that delivers safe standards by way of:

• Effective arrangements for selection, recruitment, development and training of staff
• Safety awareness training for management and staff
• Defined safety standards for, and auditing of, asset purchases and contracted services
• Controls for the early detection of - and action on – deterioration in the performance of safety-significant equipment or systems or services
• Controls for monitoring and recording the overall safety standards of the company
• The application of appropriate hazard identification, risk assessment and effective management of resources to control those risks
• Change management
• Arrangements enabling staff to communicate significant safety concerns to the appropriate level of management for resolution and feedback of actions taken
• Emergency response planning and simulated exercises to test its effectiveness
• Assessment of commercial policies with regard to impact on safety Systems to achieve safety oversight.
The following elements are desirable:
• A system for analysing flight data for the purpose of monitoring flight operations and for detecting unreported safety events
• A company wide system for the capture of written safety event issues/ reports
• A planned and comprehensive safety audit review system which has the flexibility to focus on specific safety concerns as they arise
• A published system for the conduct of internal safety inspections, the implementation of remedial actions and the communication of such information
• Systems for effective use of safety data for performance analysis and for monitoring organisational change as part of the risk management process
• Arrangements for ongoing safety promotion based on the measured internal safety performance and assimilation of experience of other operations
• Periodic review of the continued effectiveness of the safety management system an internal, independent body
• Line manager’s monitoring of work in progress in all safety critical activities to confirm compliance with all regulatory requirements, company standards and local procedures.


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