General Introduction to Aviation Safety Reporting

Safety is defined as “The condition to which risks are managed to acceptable levels.”

Whenever Humans and Machines are involved there will always be potential for accidents and incidents. Safety management is based on the premise that hazards, risks, and threats will always exist.

With a Safety Management System (SMS) we focus on the real possibility of reducing the organisations exposure across a range of business areas – we do this by delivering a systematic approach to risk management.

It is possible to promote transparent processes that establish clear lines of accountability and aid decision-making and to use this as a tool to drive positive change.

When SMS is integrated within a management system that identifies and promotes the positive attributes of a Safety Culture it then builds on a set of enduring values and attitudes regarding safety issues, which to be effective has to be shared by every member of every level of an organization.

The objective of safety reporting is to contribute to the improvement of air safety by ensuring that all information on safety-related events are identified, collected, collated, and analyzed, allowing the proactive identification of safety risks and the subsequent targeting of these risks to mitigate any possible undesired outcome.

Without a doubt, Safety Management System contributes significantly to improvements in the systems and procedures and supports the positive development of aviation operations.

However to be highly effective requires that systemic and proactive management is necessary to identify and control these hazards, risks, and threats before they lead to mishaps.

An effective SMS also requires a proactive safety culture that involves all stakeholders including the Regulatory Authority (regulator) as well as the industry working together to reduce the likelihood of accidents.

Safety Culture refers to the extent to which every individual and every group of the organization is aware of the risks and unknown hazards induced by its activities; is continuously behaving to preserve and enhance safety; is willing and able to adapt itself when facing safety issues; is willing to communicate safety issues; and consistently evaluates safety-related behaviour

SMS aims to reduce risks in aviation and seeks to introduce various mitigations that will drive the accident rate downward.

Risk management involves a systematic approach to understanding the various exposures and measuring the magnitude so that it is possible to determine the most appropriate mitigations that can address the uncertainty by identifying, understanding, assessing, monitoring, acting on, and communicating risk issues. 

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