Aviation Safety Management

      Objective: Document Control is to  d escribe how the manual will be kept up to date and how the organization will ensure that all personnel involved in safety-related duties have the most current version. Four criteria for required for compliance. Hard copy or controlled electronic media and distribution list. The correlation between the SMS manual and other existing manuals such as the CAME,MOE or the operations manual. Process for periodic review of the manual and its related forms/ documents to ensure their continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. Manual’s administration, approval and regulatory acceptance process.             

Documentation  -  maintenance organisation shall develop and maintain documentation,    in paper or electronic form, to describe the following: (a) Safety policy; (b) Safety objectives; (c) requirements, procedures and processes; (d) Responsibilities and authorities for procedures and processes; and (e) SMS outputs.       A maintenance organisation shall, as part of the SMS documentation, develop and maintain a Safety Management System Manual (SMSM), to communicate the organization’s approach to safety throughout the organization

                              CAR Section 1 Series C Part I  requires Air operators, Aerodrome operator, ATS/AANS Service provider to develop, establish, maintain and  adhere to a Safety Management System. Effective safety reporting of  hazard s by operational personnel, their analysis and documentation is a corners stone for management of safety.                               The formal documentation of hazards is an essential requirement for hazard identification as well as a trait of mature safety management. Safety information (i.e. analysed raw data)) and safety intelligence (i.e. safety information that has been corroborated and further analysed by  adding context)) combine to generate safety knowledge that must  formally reside in the organization and not with the individual members  of the or...

       Performance Objective . The organization will identify and document the hazards in its operations that are likely to cause death, serious physical harm, or damage to equipment or  property in sufficient detail to determine associated level of risk and risk acceptability.       While it is recognized that identification of every conceivable hazard is impractical, organizations are expected to  exercise due diligence in identifying and controlling significant and reasonably foreseeable hazards related to their  operations.         Risk likelihood and severity may be expressed in quantitative or qualitative terms.           Design Expectations. (1) Hazards will be:       (a) Identified for the entire scope of the system, as defined in the system  description       (b) Documented. (2) Hazard information will be:       (a) Tracked, and...

Performance Objectives . AMO will have documented safety policies,   objectives,  procedures, a document/record management process and a safety management plan  that meet organizational safety expectations and objectives. Design Expectations. Maintain Information :The organization will establish and maintain information, in paper or electronic form,  to describe: Safety policies; Safety objectives; SMS expectations; Safety procedures and processes; Accountability, responsibilities and authorities for procedures  and processes; Interactions/interfaces between the safety procedures and processes;  SMS outputs. Safety Management Plan: The organization will maintain their safety management plan in accordance with the  objectives and expectations contained within element (1.5). Documentation Management.   (a) Documentation will be:   Legible, Dated (with dates of revisions),  Readily identifiable, Maintained in an ord...