Safety Management System

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What is a Safety Management System (SMS)

A Safety Management System (SMS) is a structured approach to managing safety that includes all necessary organizational structures, procedures, and processes to ensure the safety of airport operations. It provides airport management with tools to make safety-related decisions and identify safety risks associated with airport operations, development, and other changes. By proactively addressing these risks, accidents, incidents, injuries, or damages can be prevented. SMS is achieved through a series of coordinated processes and procedures that are well-defined and closely monitored by a defined safety structure. The safety roles and responsibilities of crucial SMS Members, including top management, are clearly defined, and understood by all. Safety objectives aid in collecting data for analysis, necessary for continuous improvement.

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  1. 1 Bright yellow street sweeper cleans Runway 16R at Paine Field against a bright blue sky
  2. 2 Foreign object debris (FOD) is held in the palm of a human hand
  3. 3 A Paine Field maintenance worker clad in safety yellow sweeps FOD in front of a sweeper
  4. 4 Orange construction lighted barricades in front of a general aviation plane at night

Paine Field is adopting the four SMS components:

  1. Safety policy: management commitment, coordinating planning for emergency responses, safety accountability and responsibility, documenting, appointing key safety personnel
  2. Safety risk management: identifying hazards, assessing and mitigating safety risks, developing safety controls
  3. Safety assurance: focusing on continuous improvement of SMS, monitoring and mitigating safety performance, auditing and assessing
  4. Safety promotion: training and orientation, safety communications, safety culture, branding
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