The IHST (now called the Vertical Aviation Safety Team) SMS Toolkit is a Safety Management System toolkit of use to all helicopter operators, regardless of the size of their business, what roles and tasks they undertake, and where they operate in the world.
The 2005 International Helicopter Safety Symposium marked the beginning of an international effort to reduce the accident rate by at least 80 percent by 2016. The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) was formed to lead efforts toward reaching this objective.
As part of the IHST’s activities, it created teams (Joint Helicopter Safety Analysis Teams (JHSAT)) to analyse hundreds of accident reports worldwide and to identify common causal themes. As a result of this analysis, several recommendations were made for focussed assistance to the helicopter community.
The JHSAT’s foremost recommendation was the need to implement a Safety Management System (SMS) for use by the helicopter industry.
The JHSIT prepared this toolkit to help organizations understand the fundamentals of safety management system. It serves as a guide to implement and manage an SMS, tailored to organizations of all sizes.
Based on the findings of the JHSAT's activity, safety management problems were one of the broadest categories requiring intervention.
This toolkit addresses the issues uncovered in the US JHSAT report and provides an SMS that proactively promotes safety through a continuous improvement program.
This SMS includes attitudes toward assessing and managing risk and managing safety as a proactive organization;
it promotes safety-driven decision making through risk assessment and supports a positive and systemic safety culture.
This SMS document is an advanced, integrated method of implementing standards identified by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO);
whilst it was developed by our colleagues in the US and therefore has a few references to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), it is nevertheless of use wherever you operate in the world.
The toolkit provides assistance for organizations to achieve improved safety performance using a “performance based approach”.
It encourages organizations to choose the solution that best suits their needs and performance objectives.
The toolkit helps the organization determine their level of compliance and to develop an action plan that includes the necessary components.
The Introduction provides a summary of why the Toolkit was developed;
it addresses the need for an SMS and describes what it is.
The rest of the Toolkit is broken down into 4 chapters:
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