Best practices within safety management systems (SMS), as implemented for international commercial air transport by the aviation industry and governments, often share a common characteristic, subject matter experts say. Analyzing high volumes of safety data from flight operations and identifying risks are only part of the equation. The information derived from the process also must become integral intelligence in order for an SMS to create, implement and validate the effectiveness of risk mitigations, the experts told the FSF 68th annual International Air Safety Summit (IASS).
Several presenters at IASS, held in November in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., emphasized that a growing number of industry/government organizations have turned initially far-reaching, high-level aspirations for SMS — as introduced in Canada about 10 years ago — into everyday capabilities that make a measurable difference, and that the trend is continuing.
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