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By Steve Hall |
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November 7, 2010 - In a continuing effort to take the Safety management systems give operators a set of business processes and management tools to examine data from everyday operations, isolate trends that may be precursors to incidents or accidents, and develop and carry out appropriate risk mitigation strategies. They are a formal approach to managing an organization?s safety through four key components; safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion. |
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?Safety is
our top priority,? said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray
LaHood. ?This program can help airlines identify possible safety
problems and correct them before they lead to accidents.? The requirements of the SMS proposal would define "what" is expected rather than "how" the requirement is to be met. This allows for development and implementation of an SMS that matches the size, complexity and business models of diverse organizations in ways appropriate to their unique systems and operating environments. Under the proposed rule, scheduled air carriers and a few others operating under Part 121 of federal aviation regulations would be required to implement an SMS within three years. The carriers would have to submit their SMS implementation plans to the FAA within six months of the final rule?s effective date.
The plan
would be required to show how the airline intends to comply with
the rule within the three-year implementation period. An SMS
would not take the place of regular FAA oversight, inspection
and audits to ensure compliance with existing regulations |