Where Birds Don't Fly

Expectation 1 A Safety Policy is an organizational guidance principle which describe the operational culture and core purpose for airport or airline operations. Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) requires airports and airlines to operate a Safety Management System which is based on this Safety Policy. In addition to the generality of a Safety Policy, this policy requirement is to establish a clear enterprise commitment to safety. The challenge for airports and airlines becomes to define what a clear commitment to safety is. A clear commitment to safety is not just a statement to be safe, but it is to capture defined expectations for operational processes.  A Safety Policy has the ring of permanent nature. Expectations are defined by Transport Canada in their SMS Document Review Guide (DRG), which was distributed to airlines and airports during the implementations phases of SMS. An airport, or airline that has not established a link to the expectation of a safety policy is assessed to

SMS regulatory compliance is depending on building block design A Safety Management System (SMS) for Canadian airports, or airlines are built up by components, elements and expectations. These components, elements and expectations are in reference to the Transport Canada Document Review Guide (DRG), which was made available to all operations for implementation of a Safety Management System. The 6 Components, 17 Elements and about 95 Expectation SMS building blocks are defined for operators to design a regulatory compliant SMS with performance processes that conform to regulatory requirements. The components and underlying elements and expectations are defined in the DRG as follows: Safety Management Plan; Elements Safety Policy; Non Punitive Reporting Policy; Roles and Responsibilities and Employee Involvement; Communication; Safety Planning Performance Measurements; and Management Review. Expectations (multiple) Document Management; Elements Identification and Maintenance of Applicabl