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Enhancing safety management
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Introduction
The safety management system (SMS) is part of the business processes of the organisation and is not just a paper-based system specifically developed for demonstrating compliance with the regulatory framework. The ERA identifies that “the purpose of the SMS is to ensure that the organisation achieves its business objectives in a safe manner and complies with all of the safety obligations that apply to it” and that “Adopting a structured approach enables the identification of hazards and the continuous management of risks related to an organisation’s own activities, with the aim of preventing accidents.” Having a comprehensive SMS will help to ensure that an organisation can control the risks associated with its activities under a range of conditions. The elements of the SMS can be observed to apply a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle.
(ERA Site: https://www.era.europa.eu/activities/safety-management-system_en)
The SMS should be a living set of arrangements which grows in maturity and develops as the organisation which it serves does so. A way to Safety management is to take into consideration human and organisational factors and safety culture. This is a requirement in some areas of legislation, such as the Common Safety Methods on Safety Management System Requirements (2018/762).
Relevance to rail
The directive on railway safety (2016/798) and the Common Safety Methods on Safety Management System Requirements (2018/762) are European documents which define and explain how an SMS must be living and this includes consideration of human and organisational factors.
Approaches and models
The model used in the European Standard is from ISO 45001 an extended form of the Deming’s PDCA where risk management and learning from safety events lead to process and activity adaptations.
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