safety management systems overview

SMS Program Office

Standardization & Assistance Team

Federal AviationAdministrationSafety Management

Systems Overview

Southern Region FPM Semi-Annual Meeting

Federal AviationAdministration

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PLAN AHEAD


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"The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget about old ideas."

John Maynard Keynes


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The Evolution of Safety Thinking

HUMAN FACTORS

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1950s 1970s 1990s 2000s


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SMS and Aviation Service Providers

• What is a Safety Management System? • Where are we going?• Where are we today?• How will it affect you?


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What is a Safety Management System?

A A systemicsystemic approach to managing safety, approach to managing safety, including the necessary organizational including the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies and structures, accountabilities, policies and procedures.procedures.


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SafetySafetyAssuranceAssurance

PolicyPolicy(Structure)(Structure)

Safety Safety

PromotionPromotion

RiskRisk

ManagementManagement

Four Components of SMS


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Where are we going?

• Moving toward implementing SMS for the following FAA certificate holders– Part 121– Part 135– Part 142– Part 145

• Including the entire organization, across all departments


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0Orientation &Commitment

2ReactiveProcesses

3ProactiveProcesses

4ContinuousImprovement

1Planning &Organization

Phase 1:

Readiness

Phase 2:

Experience

How are we getting there?


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FAA SMS – Long Term Goals

• AFS SMS will encompass: (Rule by 2011)– Air Operators, Part 121 and 135– Air Agencies, Part 142 and 145

• Office of Aviation Safety (AVS)– AVS SMS will become the FAA Safety Program– Designed, implemented and integrated by 2022


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FAA SMS - Short Term Goals

• Supporting a small group of Development Partners to design and implement SMS

• Developing basic tools and techniques to facilitate the efficient transition to SMS

• Refining these tools through Lessons Learned


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How will SMS affect you?

• Foster a Positive Safety Culture through:– Training– Communication– Non-punitive Employee Reporting– Lessons Learned


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National SMS FAASTeam:

• STAT = SMS, Transition, Assistance, Team

• SASO = System Approach for Safety Oversight, S.P.O.T. = Safety Promotion Outreach Team.

• AFS-900 (SMS Program Office)

• Mitre Corporation (Part 145)


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What is new and coming with SMS?

• 1. An SMS guide book is being developed and set for completion by June 2009.

• 2. A Public SMS Web Site is coming for service provider reference.

• 3. The System Approach for Safety Oversight (SASO) office, is implementing an outreach program that will train all FAA personnel on SMS. (AFS-30)

• 4. Draft Advisory Circular 120-92A, Appex.1


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The Current SMS Process is being streamlined.

1. Combining Level O and Level 1 presentations for the initial site visit to service providers.

2. A preliminary gap analysis will be completed on initial visit.

3. This approach will give the service provider a real time analysis where their company stands with System Safety and Risk Management policies and procedures.


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January 2009• The United States filed a Difference Letter to

ICAO indicating that we do not have a rule in place to meet the January 2009 ICAO deadline, but at the present time rulemaking is in the developmental phase. We currently have an active voluntary SMS program in place with guidance in AC-120-92.

• Estimated, rule in place by 2012.• At present, there are no authorized

provisions for FAA approval or acceptance of SMS programs.


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Think Safety / Think Safety


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““Carelessness and overconfidence are more Carelessness and overconfidence are more dangerous than deliberately accepted risk”dangerous than deliberately accepted risk”Wilbur Wright, 1901Wilbur Wright, 1901

Wilbur Wright gliding, 1901Photographs: Library of Congress


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The Wright Brothers recognizedthe need for Risk Management. Their statement concerning Risk Management was recorded 2 years before their initial flight on December 17, 1903.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Dan Balash

SMS Project Lead (Southern Region)

813-287-4903

E-Mail [email protected]


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