SRM as it relates to aviation
You are the owner of Acme Aviation Safety Consulting Service. You are offering free consultations to companies and individuals concerning the dynamics of aviation safety management.
Your job is to respond to emails and answer any questions about safety management and SMS either as a written, audio, or video reply.
How the clients (and instructor) grades your response will determine the longevity of your business and whether you are a real safety expert or just another scammer.
To: Acme Aviation Safety Consulting Services.
From: C. Lindbergh
Good evening,
My name is Charles and I’m the CEO of the Spirit of Saint Louis Air Taxi service here at Lambert Field.
We have been in business since 1927 and pride ourselves on being a progressive business.
Can you identify and explain some of the program elements and considerations for a safety program that we need to consider?
Expand on this basic concept of risk management.
Speaking from experience, I can say that all aviation has risks.
What’s new in risk management and this buy-in concept?
Thank you for your time.
– Charles
In your reply to Charles, prepare a justifiable statement explaining the need for a safety program.
Your response should be professional, succinct, objective, and in terms (economics) that a CEO and CFO will understand.
Can you identify and explain some of the program elements and considerations for a safety program that we need to consider?
4 pillars of Safety Management System (SMS), Policy,
Assurance, Promotion, Risk management
Also, expand on this basic concept of risk management.
The heart of SMS is risk management, it’s a process. It’s a way to control risk, mitigate, identify hazards.
What’s new in risk management and this buy-in concept?
Levels of risk management:
Process- policy, procedure, control
Operational risk
Operational Control (flight/task/mission)
Crew Team (Real time decision making from pilot in command)
Buy in concept involves the Just Culture, which means everyone from the top executive down has bought into the culture of safety and can trust management.
References given:
ICAO SMS Module N° 2 – Basic safety concepts 2008-11 (E) (PDF)
https://www.icao.int/safety/afiplan/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fsafety%2fafiplan%2fDocuments%2fSafety%20Management%2f2008%2fSMS%20Workshop%2fModules&FolderCTID=0x0120001A0F304C022EAA418F2F89D38700A4A9
SKYbrary: IHST 2009 SMS ToolKit (PDF) (Links to an external site.) – Download the 2009-SMS -Toolkit: This week read Chapter 2, and read through pg. 26 stop at “Safety Risk Management.”
https://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/1204.pdf
Flight Safety Australia (PDF) (Links to an external site.)- Safety Management Systems by Bruce Byron, (Archives) pgs. 18-23
ASRS Program Briefing Index (PDF) (Links to an external site.) – Aviation Safety Reporting System FAA SMS – Safety Risk Management (SRM)
