Safety Management Systems
This course covers the principles of introducing and maintaining a Safety Management System within an aviation organisation.
ICAO Annex 6 requires that all aviation operators and maintenance organisations implement a Safety Management System (SMS). It is now generally accepted that most accidents result from human error. It would be easy to conclude that these human errors arise from carelessness or incompetence on the job, but that would not be accurate. Investigators are finding that the human is only the last link in a chain that leads to an accident.
We will not prevent accidents by changing people; we will only prevent accidents when we address the underlying causal factors. Since the greatest threats to aviation safety originate in organisational issues, making the system safer requires action by the organisation. After conducting extensive research Civil Aviation authorities throughout the world have concluded that the most efficient way to make aviation systems even safer will be to adopt a systems approach to safety management.
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