Assessing Organizational Safety Programs - Case Study on NASA
A Safety Management System (SMS), as defined by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), is the organization's approach to risk management and implementation of risk controls, and has four basic components: Safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion. Continually assessing organizational safety programs is vital to ensuring their efficacy and making improvements using lessons learned, and organization-wide feedback on SMS effectiveness or blind spots. A review should also be conducted if the context, mission, or stakeholders of the business have changed (Federal Aviation Administration, 2020). An SMS serves to integrate safety risk management measures into business processes and day-to-day operations, thus systematically improving safety, and should be continuously improved with lessons learned and feedback, and reviewed when the operation changes significantly. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is best known for space expl...