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The Safety Management System (SMS) Safety Policy is the platform on which the SMS is built. The policy is built on an idea, a vision, and expectations of future achievements. A policy is a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. An SMS policy follows these same principles and remains in force until the idea, vision, or expectations changes. It is crucial to the success and integrity of a Safety Management System that the Safety Policy is designed to serve the major definite purpose of an enterprise. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. A major definite purpose is the core purpose for the existence of an organization, and the hub where goals, objectives and processes are developed and designed. The more you think about the purpose of your SMS Policy, and how to achieve it, you begin to attract people, opportun

There is a difference between a risk analysis and a risk assessment. A risk assessment involves several steps and forms a platform of an overall risk management plan. A risk analysis is one of those steps and is a defining a characteristic of each risk level and is assigned a weight score as a part of the risk assessment. Generally speaking, a risk assessment includes identification of the issues that contribute to risk, analyzing their significance, identifying options to manage, or maintain oversight of the risk, determining which option is likely to be the best fit for size, complexity and scaled to an organization, and assigning recommendations to decision-makers. A risk assessment also includes one or multiple risk analyses for both pre-risk and post-risk mitigation. A risk analysis is one single justification task of likelihood and severity of a hazard and communicated as a risk level, and it may be a standalone document or a supporting document in a risk assessment.  There are s