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Don’t confuse quality management with
SMS
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Quality management is an underpinning of Safety Management
Systems (SMS), but they should not be confused as being one in the
same, advised Dr Alan Stolzer co-editor of Implementing Safety
Management Systems in Aviation. Dr. Stolzer discussed the
similarities and differences before an audience assembled for the
2011 Center for General Aviation Research (CGAR) conference ̶ CGAR
is an FAA Center of Excellence.
A solid SMS is built upon quality management principles, but a
comparison between the FAA's SMS Framework and ISO's AS9100 quality
management standard revealed substantial differences. Stolzer
undertook this work as part of an FAA grant to assist the
organization in implementing SMS. Other tasks he described to the
CGAR audience included development of a process for producing a
system description, examining lifecycle and data exchange issues,
and decomposing an accident to identify Safety Risk Management and
Safety Assurance connections.
Alan J. Stolzer
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Implementing Safety
Management Systems in Aviation is a new book that offers
significant guidance and best practice on implementing SMS
programs.
Safety
Management Systems in Aviation covers the
essential points of SMS and discusses the quality management
underpinnings of SMS, the four pillars; risk management,
reliability engineering, SMS implementation and the scientific
rigor that mus be designed into proactive safety.
The above book are part of the series, Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight
Operations.
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