Safety Management Systems in Aviation

Safety Management Systems in Aviation
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Introduction
Many organizations ensure that their staff are made aware of Safety Management Systems implementation policies and procedures with an aim of minimizing the occurrence of adverse effects associated with risks. The Oxford English Dictionary define risk as "the possibility of danger, injury, loss or any other adverse outcome". This paper looks at the process of Safety Management Systems implementation and the role it plays in mitigating the various categories of risks in an Aviation environment. According to Stolzer et al. (2013), the objective of risk management is the enhancement of an organization’s business performance. Safety Management Systems in aviation are particularly important in assisting the corporate personnel to develop workable risk management programs and draft them in workbooks for learning by their staff (Stolzer, 2013).
Risk Elimination
Nobel C. of Harvard Business School says that risk elimination from an organization’s operations is an impractical. He explains that this is because risk involves decisions about something that has not happened yet. In such a case, all the facts about the decision that is being made are not known. That implies that the possibility of risk is high. Leaders have the responsibility of recognizing the potential consequences of a decision and make another decision pertaining to the expected outcome. Despite this, there are still high chances that the decision may turn false. (Hsu & Chen, 2010).
This is the reason why it is so difficult to eliminate risk from the operations. Trying to eliminate the risk of making a wrong decision may end up increasing the risk of making another wrong decision in some way. For example, a businessperson may decide not to put his or her business in a growth mode until sometime later when the owner thinks is the right time. This may make the business lug behind the competitor’s. In aviation, there will always be the security risk issues because risk elimination would mean not allow people fly. Examples of major risks and uncertainties that impacts on any business activities include; Governance Risks, Operational Risks, Financial Risks, External Risks and Compliance with law and regulation.
Safety Risk Management
Before Security Management Systems (SMS) are developed, the safety hazards must first be identified in the operations of the organization and controls to manage those risks put in place. The SMS being built or improved for an aviation environment must be risk based. For example, risks involved in helicopter operations are quite different from those of Regular Passenger Transport (RPT) services and therefore each SMS need to capture that
(Stolzer, 2013).
Safety Risk Management entails careful examination of that which can cause harm in your work and weighing whether you have taken sufficient precautions to prevent that harm from happening. It is evident that aircraft accidents ruins lives and affects business negatively because output is lost and assets destroyed. Legally, it is important to assess the risks in the workplace so as to save operations and implement a risk control plan in that environment. Safety Risk Mana...