SMS

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Safety Performance Measurements

Measurement data must be:
- Precise and accurate
- Easy to interpret
- Significant to organization’s safety objectives
- Able to be benchmarked
- Trended over time
- Practical, cost-effective and technologically feasible

Manufacturer’s Proactive Safety Performance Measures

Based on our experience, AlgoPlus™ anticipates that SMS requirements for manufacturers will go beyond accidents and operational incidents and include proactive analyses such as the following:
Company-wide Top 10 component problems 24 months earlier
- How many remain in the "Top 10" later?
Top 5 component problems for each model, now
- How many months have they been in the "Top 5"?
Risk Priority Index for each model
- Trends over time compared to
  - Internal benchmarks
  - External benchmarks from other regional jet manufacturers

Performance Measure
Example: Persisting Problems

This tabulation identifies a persisting problem with the TE Flap Control System in one model. There are a total of 79 SDRs beginning in April 1999 and persisting to October 2005.

Summary

Requirement:

Enhance safety system oversight process
Augment Product Integrity and Safety unit
Comply with Transport Canada’s evolving Safety Management System requirements
Prepare for CAR 521’s anticipated requirement that certificate holders establish and maintain a system for receiving, recording, analyzing and investigating Service Difficulty Reports
Analytic modules are intuitive and easily learned
Be compatible with existing systems and easily implemented with minimal disruption
Produce analyses resulting in actionable information
Provide for sharing, communicating and documenting results
Analytic systems contribute to action plans and help follow-up
Provide data for defining and monitoring performance measures
Permit the tracking of changes
Complete management tool
Profit center potential
Operational in two months

Brochure

Safety Management On-line Services