Safety Management Systems

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Safety Management Systems
SMS
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• If youve always
• been doing that way

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• then there is a good chance youre probably
• doing it wrong!

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Background

• An accident or incident is almost always the
  result of a chain of events.
• Latent conditions combine with active failures to
  produce an accident.
• It is widely accepted that most accidents result
  from human error.
• Recent research suggests that human error is
  merely the last link in the chain of events
  leading to an accident.

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Unsafe Acts
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Preconditions for Unsafe Acts
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Unsafe Supervision
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Organizational Influences
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Resulting in an accident or injury

• Latent Conditions

• Latent Conditions

Unsafe Supervision

• Active and Latent Conditions

Preconditions for Unsafe Acts
Unsafe Acts

• Active Conditions

Failed or Absent Defenses
Accident or Incident
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• Increasingly, the industry is accepting the
  notion that most accidents are organizational
  in nature.
• If most accidents are organizational, then
  companies are in the best position to control
  factors leading to an accident.

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What is Safety Management about?

• An organized set of programs, principles,
  processes and procedures for the allocation of
  resources, to achieve the condition where
• risks are managed to acceptable levels.

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Main Focus of SMS

• Airworthiness and aircraft maintenance
• Health and safety
• Training

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• The aviation accident rate has flattened.
• If the forecast growth in traffic materializes,
  the industry will suffer one major hull loss per
  week in the years to come. To further improve we
  have to do something different.
• The Canadian aviation industry and Transport
  Canada believe that the proactive management of
  safety through Safety Management Systems will
  result in the next step improvement in the
  accident rate.

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Expected Outcomes

• SMS is designed to reduce regulatory burden
• in two respects
• Less regulation in terms of amount and
  prescription.
• 2. Possibly less intervention inspections,
  audits enforcement and litigation.

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Requirements

• The total participation and support by all levels
  of management
• Total participation of all employees, unionized
  and non-unionized
• Removal of the stigma attached to internal
  reporting of non-compliance and safety hazards

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Risks and Hazards

• The backbone of SMS is hazard reporting
• Risks are best managed when understood
• If we are aware of our hazards, we can properly
  assess and manage risks

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Risks and Hazards

• A hazard is a condition which, in combination
  with other
• factors, may lead to an incident, accident or
  quality escape,
• such as
• Workplace hazards (Spills)
• Deviation from approved procedures (Manuals)
• Improper or unapproved data used to complete a
  task
• Unsafe practices, (Skipping steps, unapproved
  tools)
• Improperly completed documents
• Equipment or tools in poor condition or
  inadequate for the job

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Reporting Process
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Regulatory Requirements

• SMS programs are a new trend in Civil Aviation,
  and are currently a requirement for airports, air
  navigation providers and air operators in other
  countries (i.e., Australia, United Kingdom)
• In May 2005, implementing an SMS became a
  regulatory requirement for all Approved
  Maintenance Organizations (AMO) in Canada.

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Canadian Aviation Regulations

• CAR 573.30
• The safety management system required under
  section 107.02 in respect of an applicant for,
  or a holder of, an approved maintenance
  organization (AMO) certificate authorizing the
  holder to perform maintenance on an aircraft
  operated under Subpart 5 of Part VII shall
• (a) meet the requirements of Subpart 7 of Part I
  and section 573.31 and
• (b) be under the control of the person
  responsible for maintenance appointed under
  paragraph 573.03(1)(a).

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• So how does HAZMAT fit into SMS?