The Why and What of Safety Management Systems

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• The Why and What of Safety Management Systems

Presented by Captain Rick Clarke Director, SMS
Project Air Line Pilots Association
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The Issue of Safety

• What do we understand?
• The record is a good one
• Air transportation will continue to grow
• The Air Transportation System is outgrowing the
  capabilities of the current aviation safety system

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Safety Efforts are Changing

• What is Driving this?
• Financial stress for Air Carriers and Regulators
• A Tangle of Regulations, Standards, Annexes,
  Policies and Procedures
• Lessons Learned

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The Issue of Focus

• What does ALPA want for the Industry?
• Safe and Efficient Air Carrier Service
• Effective and Strong Air Carriers

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Two Ways to Look at Safety
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The Traditional Way Regulatory Safety

• A foundation of rules aimed to improve the
  standards of behavior, practice and of
  operatingthe level of which is governed by
  societal, cultural, philosophical factors, legal
  systems, technological progress and experience.

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Regulatory Safety Has Limits

• Design, manufacture and operations of aircraft
  must comply with regulations
• but you cant write a regulation to address
  every potential hazard
• so, the goal becomes compliance with existing
  rules ignoring other hazards

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Regulatory safety is Reactive
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What is the Regulators Duty?

• It is NOT safety achievement
• It IS safety oversight

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What is the Airlines Duty?

• Safety achievement is the responsibility of the
  airline

Regulators diminishing resources are best
applied in assisting / enabling airline safety
management
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• Safety via the Proactive Way
• Safety Management Systems

A systematic and continuous Management process
based on proactive identification of Hazards, and
analyses of their Risk.
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SMS comes from System Safety
Cradle to Grave Concept
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Adapted to Ongoing Organizations
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SMS ..

• Is an Operator based system
• Integrates Employee expertise
• Interfaces with Regulators oversight systems

Operator
Regulator
Employee
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SMS is the toolbox

• Management tools
• System Safety tools
• Safety Information tools

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Three Hallmarks of SMS
The CEO establishes the policy and sets the SMS
into motion
The airline uses and maintains a robust Risk
Management system
The airline has a non-punitive safety reporting
system for all the employees
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SMS is

• a top-down program starting with the
  Accountable Executive

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SMSemphasizes Risk Management

• It integrates safety with Line Management

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A SMS Company

• Organizes
• Policy, Procedure, and Practice
• Management Systems and Communications

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A SMS Company
Adopts Risk Management Practices to

• Adapt to Change
• Manage Resource Application
• Understand the pitfalls of the operating
  environment

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A SMS Company

• Develops a Just Culture or Safety Culture to

Capture the operational knowledge and experience
of the employees
Involve the employees in the safety achievement
process
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Whats in a Just Culture?

• The immediate response is to find what
  happened, not who to blame and punish
• Acceptance that more can be learned through full
  reporting and detailed investigation
• Partnership in identifying hazards and root causes

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SMS is about

• Process
• instead of
• Events

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Focusing on Events
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Focusing on Processes
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In Business and SMS
Risk manageable, but what is it?
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Risk

• The consequence of a hazard, measured in terms of
  Probability and Severity

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Risk Assessment Matrix
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Risk Management is.
New Info?
Tracking?
.a continuous process .a closed loop
process .cross discipline
SMS
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SMS is a System that Integrates
Organization
Risk Management
Safety Information
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Keep This In Mind
SMS is the toolbox for

• Management tools
• Risk Management tools
• Safety Information tools

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The Issue of Safety

• Current safety approaches cant keep up with
  aviation growth
• We need a new approach to the problem

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The Industrys Answer

• ALPA, Regulators, Air Carriers, ICAO, IATA, IBAC

SMS
Launching a common idea and a new approach
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Access the Manual
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The End
A product from the ALPA Safety Management System
(SMS) Project