SMM

[Stephen L.]

Hi Safety forum readers! Looking for an ICAO compliant Safety Management Manual. Somebody around who could provide help? The year draws to an end.....PM please. Stephen.

[Walder]

Safety Management

Unfortunately I am unable to reply on previouse thread of the SMM.

This link has a direct link to Safety Management Manual in PDF form.
The size is 33 mb.

Enjoy

Walder

[Mr. Burns]

Please note that the ICAO website features an Airport SMM. I think there are certain differences between an Airport SMM and an Airline SMM. As I have written an Airline SMM, anybody who wants to discuss this, should feel free to contact me.

[Spitoon]

I can't help feeling that one of the biggest weaknesses of this whole safety management thing is the idea that there is a standard SMM. Taking another organisation's SMM and trying to apply it to another is rarely going to work and will probably involve far more work than developing a framework based on the principles of a good SMS and allowing it to grow.

Having seen both approaches tried I would always vote for the latter. The really sad thing is that regulators so often seem to want a fully populated, 'gold-plated' SMM from day one which simply encourages short-cuts.

[Mr. Burns]

From my experience, I would say it's a good approach to writing an SMM if you take the material on the ICAO website (see here), the guidance material on the website of the UK CAA (see here) plus the material on the website of the Swiss CAA (see here; unfortunately not available in English). I did it this way and wrote a SMM that covers all subjects considered in the guidance material available. At that time, there weren't really other SMM available which I could have used to do "copy & paste"... I was working on that for quite a few weeks, but I am satisfied about the result consindering this SMM is addressing all the ICAO requirements. In addition to that, I got feedback from colleagues at two other airlines being in the safety business for years who said that was quite a good job. I would also say that one should not be afraid of having to write an SMM as many aspects of the safety management issue are already part of EU-OPS.