Implementing Safety Management Systems for （实现安全管理系统）.pdfVIP

Paper 164, ENT 203 Implementing Safety Management Systems for Aviation into an Aviation Technology Curriculum Timothy D. Ropp Purdue University, Department of Aviation Technology tropp@ Abstract While the concept of safety in risk-sensitive industries such as aviation is familiar, organizations still struggle to define and practice effective safety principles on a daily basis, given the dynamic and inherent nature of aviation hazards. This has given rise to the concept of a systems approach to safety and referred to by global standards and regulatory bodies as safety management systems (SMS). Similar in structure to the concept of quality management systems, although with some significant differences, SMS is becoming a regulatory requirement for air operators around the world in all facets of aviation. The migration from the traditional approach of managing safety through a department or official representative is no longer sufficient for maintaining adequate levels of risk control. Managing safety as a “system” has placed new demands and competency requirements on engineering and technology graduates entering aviation. Terms such as “hazard identification,” “risk mitigation,” and “proactive performance-based safety” must become working competencies; these should be as familiar to graduates as the knowledge and skills of their own technical degree field, if they are to succeed and contribute to the industry. A logical place to educate and equip future industry leaders to manage safety as a system in the aviation environment is in the classroom at the university level before they enter industry. Development and practical application of principles of SMS within an aviation technology laboratory curriculum at Purdue University is curren