The Washington Aviation Group assists companies in developing, implementing, auditing and improving Safety Management Systems.
A Safety Management System can be a useful tool that permits a business' senior management to effectively manage safety and compliance within the organization. It can provide specific benefits in areas like proactive risk mitigation and effective (data-driven) change management.
Our staff has been involved in the development of Safety Management guidance and regulations on three continents, and we've worked with companies on the development and maintenance of effective Safety Management Systems.
Your Safety Management System should do more than just 'tick-a-box.' It should provide safety value, compliance value, and management value. It should be a useful tool to manage and measure company safety and compliance efforts. We have assisted companies in the development of both regulated and unregulated Safety Management Systems, and we would love to work with you to develop a Safety Management System that meets your goals.
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Safety Management Systems (SMS)
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Training
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System Development and Mapping
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Integration with Existing Systems
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Consulting on Specific Elements:
Building the Foundation with Safety Goals and Objectives
Hazard Identification
Risk Assessment
Risk Mitigation
Using SMS for Change Management
Safety Assurance (Auditing, Measurement and Monitoring)
Safety Promotion
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System Auditing
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Our SMS Experience:
The Washington Aviation Group team has served on FAA SMS rulemaking teams and supported SMS rulemaking efforts around the world. We've helped to develop SMS guidance, like SM-0001. We've assisted companies in developing SMS programs in early-adopter countries (like Japan), and we've assisted companies in developing unregulated SMS programs. We've supported education and awareness for the new manufacturing and maintenance SMS requirements in Europe and the United States. We've also spoken extensively on a wide range of SMS topics.
We've also written many articles on SMS; here are links to a few of them:
SMS - What Makes it Useful? Part One: Hazard Identification, 39 AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE #1, January 10, 2020, at 48.
SMS: Making It Useful Part Two Risk Assessment and Likelihood, 39 AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE #3, May 16, 2020.
SMS: Making It Useful Part Three Risk Consequence, 39 AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE #4, July 19, 2020 at 48.
Correlating Risk Consequence and Likelihood (SMS Part Four), 39 AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE #5, Autumn/Fall 2020 at 48.
SMS Part 5: The Relationship Between Risk Controls and Your Safety Risk Management System, 40 AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE #1, Spring 2021 at 50.
SMS Part 6: Strategies for Identifying and Selecting Risk Controls, 40 AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE #2, Summer 2021 at 46.
SMS Part 7: Using the Hazard Log to Support Change Management, Aviation Maintenance Magazine, Autumn 2021.
