Implementation of the Safety Management System within Small Operators
Implementation of the Safety Management System within Small Operators

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the safety management system for small air carriers. Safety management system is a crucial process in the establishment of the operator itself and in defining its performance targets. In order to understand safety management, it is necessary to consider what is meant by safety. Depending on one‘s perspective, the concept of aviation safety may have different connotations. Depending on the perspective of the observers, the aviation security concept may have different connotations. It is not possible to achieve 100% security level. It is not possible to guarantee absolute security for both individual and systemic human activities. Security should be classified as a “common culture” of behavior within the operator itself. There must be a clear line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Properly designed and objectively tailored, Safety Management System should enable an operator to identify hazards well in advance, implement mitigating measures and to reduce a risk, which hasn’t even occurred yet, to a level, certainly acceptable for an operator.

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