Safety Management SystemsDGTA-ADF SMS Fundamentals Course

Safety Management Systems Fundamentals

Course Leaning Outcomes

1.1 Demonstrate understanding of Safety Management System concepts

1.2 Demonstrate knowledge of the ICAO SMS structure

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Course Support Learning Outcomes1.1.1 Discuss the reasons for having a Safety Management System

1.1.2 Identify the impact that human factors may have within the aviation maintenance environment

1.2.1 Discuss the concepts of ICAO SMS

1.2.2 Discuss structure and culture within an SMS

1.2.3 Understand the processes required to manage risk in the maintenance environment

1.2.4 Understand the importance of safety assurance and promotion activities

1.2.5 Understand the linkages between the elements of an SMS within the aviation maintenance environment

SMS Fundamentals Course ScheduleDay One1. SMS History and Concepts2. ICAO Approach3. Case Study4. Safety Policy & Objectives5. Risk Management

Day Two7. Risk Management8. Safety Assurance & Promotion9. Case Study10. Assessment & Wrap Up

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Module 1 – SMS History and Concepts

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The First Aviation Safety Management System

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The HumpThe Hump• Sep 1944 • Tunner took command of Hump operations• Flew a hump mission in C-46 Commando • Selected key players for his Safety Management Team:

Major Temple Brown - Chief of Supply

Lt Col Robert White - Chief of Maintenance

Col Andrew Cannon - Bengal Wing Commander

Captain Kenneth Stiles - Statistician

Captain Arthur Norden – Flying Safety Officer

Lt Col Red Foreman - Chief Pilot

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The HumpThe HumpStiles and Norden introduced a new flying safety program:

– Researched the reasons for accidents– Developed new procedures to detect, prevent and correct

safety violations– Introduced rapid and wide dissemination of accident

investigation findings

Addressed many other issues: – Equipment (C-54)– Fatigue– Charts– Rostering.

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German F-104German F-104

916 aircraft in service 1960 - 1987292 aircraft lostAttrition: 31.8%

115 fatalities

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RAAF Mirage IIIRAAF Mirage III

116 aircraft in service 1963 - 198743 aircraft lost

Attrition: 37.06%14 fatalities

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Progression of safety over timeProgression of safety over time

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“Defence has a Duty of Care and a moral obligation to manage and protect the safety of our most valuable assets-our people.

Underpinning our command commitment to aviation safety is our safety culture. We must strive for a generative safety culture where all errors and occurrences are openly and honestly reported, where honest human error is treated in a just and fair manner, and where willful violations are not condoned.”

(Houston, 2004)

ADF Aviation Safety Management System ADF Aviation Safety Management System (ASMS) (2004)(ASMS) (2004)

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Q: What is Safety?

A: Anything that makes an organisationand it’s personnel safer, so that capabilityor business outcomes are maximised.

This can involve action that is proactive, predictive or even reactive, and includes regulation, training and education.

Q: What is a Safety Management System?

A: Is a systematic, explicit and proactive process for managing safety that integrates operations and technical systems with financial and human resource management to achieve safe operations with as low as reasonably practicable risk.

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What do these things mean with respect to managing safety ?

Systematic

Proactive

Integrated

Explicit

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ICAO Safety Management Manual Annex 19:

“Safety management system (SMS). A systematic approach to managing safety, including the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies and procedures.”

Safety. The state in which risks associated with aviation activities, related to, or in direct support of the operation of aircraft, are reduced and controlled to an acceptable level.

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Benefits of an SMSBenefits of an SMS• Designed to give leadership full awareness of the key risks for the

weapon system

• The ability to control the potential “safety loss generators” that the weapon system or organisation faces

(safety loss generator = escalating factor for a non-safe event to occur)

• A clear and documented approach to achieving safe operations and maintenance that can be explained to others

• Active involvement of all the staff in safety

• Leadership can demonstrate to command, its personnel, and superiors that risks are being managed

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The Real World Balance?

Safety Capability

Thoroughness Efficiency

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SMS is not WHS or QMSSMS is not WHS or QMS

A Safety Management System shares some elements with WHS and QMS, but it does many things that those two systems do not.

QMS: Customer satisfaction

SMS: Process safety

WHS: Personal safety

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State Safety Programs

The CAA intent behind a State Safety Program:

to harmonise and extend provisions relating to safety management to all categories of aviation service providers - aircraft operators, air navigation service providers, certified aerodrome operators, maintenance organisations, organisations responsible for type design and/or assembly of aircraft and training organisations.

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State Safety Program (SSP) objectives: • Safety regulation

• Harmonisation of SRM roles

• Measure safety performance

• Continuous improvement

• Ensure effective SMS implementation

This is SMS managed at a national level.

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The relationship between SSP and SMSThe relationship between SSP and SMS

• States are responsible for developing and establishing an SSP

• Service providers are responsible for developing and establishing an SMS.

• States are not expected to develop an SMS; rather the SSP fulfils the equivalent role at the national level.

• States are responsible, as part of the activities of their SSP, to accept and oversee the development, implementation and operational performance of the service provider’s SMS.

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