Ready, set, go: legal considerations in implementing a safety management system

As part of an international effort to implement Safety Management Systems (SMS) throughout the aviation industry, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has begun an ambitious program to mandate SMS. The agency intends to require SMS for all of its regulated components: airports, air carriers and air traffic. Two key directives are Order 5200.11, FAA Airports (ARP) SMS, issued August 30, 2011, and FAA's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend FAR Part 139 to require that each holder of an airport operating certificate develop and maintain an FAA-approved airport SMS. This article covers the process of preparing for SMS, getting an airport ready for the institutionalization of safety through new policies and procedures. Steps include a legal exposure audit, regulatory documents audit, administrative audit, financial assessment, audit of needed FAA approvals, assembling a SMS review team, preparing a schedule for preparation of key documents, and gap analysis.

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• Authors:
  • Kirsch, Peter
• Publication Date: 2011-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 26-28
• Serial:
  • Airport Magazine
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: AAAE Service Corporation, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0744-5326

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Airlines; Airports; Auditing; Aviation; Evaluation and assessment; Legal factors; Regulation
• Identifier Terms: Safety Management Systems; U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Gap analysis
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01345121
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 20 2011 7:27AM