Safety Management System Introduction
A Safety Management System (SMS) within any aviation organization provides a systematic approach to managing safety. For an SMS to be effective, there must be the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, responsibilities, policies and procedures. An effective SMS should enable an organization to identify hazards, assess risks and can be the mechanism to continuously improve safety performance.
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Safety management and how to apply its’ policy and principles into their working environment
- The value of an organization having a SMS in place and the possible legal implications of not having one;
- The importance of a positive safety culture
- The need for meaningful hazard identification and risk assessment to increase safety levels
Course Outlines:
- Concept of safety
- The evolution of safety thinking
- A concept of accident causation – Reason model
- The organizational accident
- People, context and safety – SHEL(L) model
- Errors and violations
- Organizational culture
- Safety investigation
- The safety stereotypes
- The management dilemma
- Safety anagement
- Strategies for safety management
- Safety management – Eight building blocks
- Responsibilities & definitions of risks, Hazard & Consequence
- Fundamentals of Hazards: – Understanding hazards / Hazard identification/ Hazard analysis /Documentation of hazards
- Fundamentals of Risk –management / probability/ severity/ Risk assessment and tolerability/ Risk control& mitigation