The Goals Of SMS Management Review
NOTE: This post is from one of our frequent contributors to this blog, "Birdseye59604.
An
objective of a Safety Management System (SMS) is to include a Management Review,
where the system is evaluated for effectiveness and if the systems are adequate
to organizational needs and will continue to meet organizational needs over
time.
Goals
established for a Management Review are activities to be completed for a
successful outcome of objectives. Effective goal activities are processes with
defined roles of who does it, how it is done and when it's done.
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| Goal is a vehicle travelling to destination named Objective |
Supporting
goals for the Management Review are periodic, planned reviews and review for
cause. A review for cause goal is the activity to take place when there are
major changes in the organization that affects SMS or operations. These major
activities could be due to senior management changes or activities requiring new
non-established processes to operate.
"Effective goal activities are processes with defined roles of who does it, how it is done and when it's done."
Other
goals for a Management Review objective are to review audits, verify that
employees understand roles and responsibilities, verify achievement results of
other objectives, review of results from investigation and analysis,
effectiveness of internal and external feedback, determine the status of
corrective actions completed and other with progress reports, follow-up from
previous Management Review reports, goals of changes that could affect SMS, review
recommendations for improvements and sharing of best practices across
organization. All these goals are tools
established for management to understand if their SMS is functioning as
intended.
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| Objective is a destination for the Goal to stay on track. |
In
addition to operational goals, there are administrative goals. These goals are
procedures and responsibilities for conducting audits of policies and
procedures, and audits of SMS maintenance requirements.
A
final goal is for Management Review to evaluate the effectiveness of corrective
actions resulting from previous Management Reviews. This all boils down to the
simple concept to Plan, Do, Check and Act. SMS is simple in concept, but
comprehensive in assigning weight to each process.
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