Safety management system

Question 1

85. What is Safety?

Answer 1

a. don’t harm people

Question 2

86. What is management system?

Answer 2

it is a set of policy, processes and procedures, acccountability and responsiblity to achieve safety outcome.

Question 3

88. What is safety management system?

Answer 3

a. It is a series of organisational processes to effectively manage safety risks, assuring safety risk controls are effective and efficient and embracing the safety culture and proactive approach to organisation.

It is about a organisational processes to manage safety risks, assuring safety risk controls are effective and efficient, and has a set of organisational structures, accountability, responsibility and procedures and controls to achieve safety objective by embracing the generative safety culture. Safety culture a part of environment that surrounds the entire safety effort.

Question 4

89. What is FAA safety management system AIM?

Answer 4

To build and foster an open, just and generative safety culture whereby all FAA personnel:
- Openly report safety issues without fear of punishment
- Contribute to process improvement
- Identify, report and investigate hazards
- Eliminate risks SFARP, or where this is not possible, minimise risks SFARP.

Question 5

90. What is the purpose of FAA SMS purpose?

Answer 5

COMFAA is obligated to meet WHS Act through compliance with DASR ASMS and ANP2200. This allows our operation of aircraft to be defensive and credible as a system exists which identifies hazards and mitigate them appropriately.

COMFAA holds accountability for the DASR SMS requirements and ensured compliance and conformance through the Quality Management System and other process as per the SMS.

Question 6

91. How many pillars and elements do we have? What are they?

Answer 6

a. 4 Pillars
i. Safety policy and objectives
ii. Safety risk management
iii. Safety oversight and improvement
iv. Safety promotion
b. 12 elements
i. Management commitment
ii. Generative safety culture
iii. Accountability and responsibility
iv. Appointment of key safety personnel
v. SMS robust and current document
Vi. Relevant Third Party Interactions

vi. Hazard identification
vii. Safety risk assessment and mitigation
viii. Investigation

ix. Safety performance monitoring and measuring
x. Management of change
xi. Continuous improvement of the SMS
XI. Survey and audit

xii. Training and education
xiii. Safety communication

Question 7

92. What is Safety policies and objectives?

Answer 7

a. It is where commander is integral and has to be whole heartedly committed in effective safety management system to create generative aviation safety culture by assigning key safety personnel as a chain of command, coordination of emergency response planning and promulgate robust and current safety information.

Question 8

93. What is Safety risk management?

Answer 8

a. It is a process systemically identify safety hazard and assess risks and mitigate the risks as well as medical aspects to aviation safety investigations

Question 9

94. What is Safety oversight and improvement?

Answer 9

a. It is to evaluate the overall performance and effectiveness of sms. It means evaluating whether safety objective are being met, whether risk controls are continuously effective and whether safety practices are continuously improving.

Question 10

95. What is Safety promotion?

Answer 10

a. It is to train and educate all staffs and create effective two ways safety communication from commander to floor staff and vice visa via through chain of command.

Question 11

What is the interaction between QMS and SMS?

Answer 11

SMS is a subset of QMS because ASR output will identify if there are non-compliances and non-comformances of the procedures. CAP audit output will provide any findings to the

Question 12

What are the steps of ASR investigation?

Answer 12

The steps are Gather information (using C-SHELL model, interviews) , organise information (develop timelines about pre-event Event and post-event by using 5 WHYs) , Analysis (Using SAMs from Capability, Individual/Team, Local conditions, Risk Controls and organisational influences) , develop findings, providing action items and recommendations and Input in Sentinel.

Question 13

ASMS framework

Answer 13

Component 1 – Safety policy and objectives:

 Management commitment.
 Safety accountability and responsibilities.
 Appointment of key safety personnel.
 Coordination of emergency response planning.
 SMS documentation.

o Component 2 – Safety risk management:
 Hazard identification.
 Safety risk assessment and mitigation.

o Component 3 – Safety oversight and improvement:
 Safety performance monitoring and measurement.
 The management of change.
 Continuous improvement of the SMS.

o Component 4 – Safety promotion:
 Training and education.
 Safety communication.

Question 14

what is safety management?