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    The document outlines the four components of a Safety Management System (SMS): 1) a Safety Policy that establishes senior management's commitment to safety; 2) Safety Risk Management to determine risk controls; 3) Safety Assurance to evaluate risk control strategies; and 4) Safety Promotion for training and communication. It describes each component in more detail and notes that Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance are key, interactive processes within an SMS.

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    The Four Components of A SMS Are

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    The document outlines the four components of a Safety Management System (SMS): 1) a Safety Policy that establishes senior management's commitment to safety; 2) Safety Risk Management to determine risk controls; 3) Safety Assurance to evaluate risk control strategies; and 4) Safety Promotion for training and communication. It describes each component in more detail and notes that Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance are key, interactive processes within an SMS.

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    The document outlines the four components of a Safety Management System (SMS): 1) a Safety Policy that establishes senior management's commitment to safety; 2) Safety Risk Management to determine risk controls; 3) Safety Assurance to evaluate risk control strategies; and 4) Safety Promotion for training and communication. It describes each component in more detail and notes that Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance are key, interactive processes within an SMS.

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    The four components of a SMS are:

    1. Safety Policy — Establishes senior management's commitment to continually


    improve safety; defines the methods, processes, and organizational structure
    needed to meet safety goals
    o Establishes management commitment to safety performance through
    SMS
    o Establishes clear safety objectives and commitment to manage to those
    objectives
    o Defines methods, processes, and organizational structure needed to meet
    safety goals
    o Establishes transparency in management of safety
     Fully documented policy and processes
     Employee reporting and resolution system
     Accountability of management and employees
    o Builds upon the processes and procedures that already exist
    o Facilitates cross-organizational communication and cooperation
    2. Safety Risk Management (SRM) — Determines the need for, and adequacy of,
    new or revised risk controls based on the assessment of acceptable risk
    o A formal process within the SMS composed of:
     Describing the system
     Identifying the hazards
     Assessing the risk
     Analyzing the risk
     Controlling the risk
    o The SRM process may be embedded in the processes used to provide the
    product/service
    3. Safety Assurance (SA) — Evaluates the continued effectiveness of
    implemented risk control strategies; supports the identification of new hazards
    o SMS process management functions that systematically provide
    confidence that organizational outputs meet or exceed safety
    requirements
    o AVS SMS has a dual safety assurance focus:
     AVS organizations
     Product/service providers
    o Ensures compliance with SMS requirements and FAA orders, standards,
    policies, and directives
     Information Acquisition
     Audits and evaluations
     Employee reporting
     Data Analysis
     System Assessment
    o Provides insight and analysis regarding methods/opportunities for
    improving safety and minimizing risk
    o Existing assurance functions will continue to evaluate and improve
    service
    4. Safety Promotion — Includes training, communication, and other actions to
    create a positive safety culture within all levels of the workforce
    o Safety promotion activities within the SMS framework include:
     Providing SMS training
     Advocating/strengthening a positive safety culture
     System and safety communication and awareness
     Matching competency requirements to system requirements
     Disseminating safety lessons learned
    o Everyone has a role in promoting safety

    Interfaces Between SRM and SA


    Safety Risk Management (SRM) and Safety Assurance (SA) are the key processes of
    the SMS. They are also highly interactive. The flowchart below may be useful to help
    visualize these components and their interactions. The interface attribute concerns the
    input-output relationships between the activities in the processes. This is especially
    important where interfaces between processes involve interactions between different
    departments, contractors, etc. Assessments of these relationships should pay special
    attention to flow of authority, responsibility and communication, as well as procedures
    and documentation.

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