FAR - SMS

The Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) that I have chosen was Part 5 of Title 14, Safety Management Systems (SMS). This law establishes that air carriers and commercial operators operating under domestic, flag, and supplemental operations must have a SMS in place (eCFR, 2015). This law then further describes what is required to be in the SMS such as the safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion (eCFR, 2015). This law also describes the recordkeeping requirements for the SMS held within the company (eCFR, 2015). This law was finalized in 2015 and the SMS had to be used within the organization by March of 2018. All together, this law’s requirement for the implementation of SMS is to ensure that companies have control over the potential risks associated within its works and to effectively identify and mitigate new risks to prevent unnecessary aircraft mishaps.

The FAR presented has helped shape the aviation industry by reducing the overall chance of an aircraft mishap happening and allowing a smoother transition to new equipment with effective training and teaching of potential hazards. SMS has prevented numerous accidents from repeating and others from ever occurring with early identification and appropriate response to the risk. The amount of air traffic fatalities between 2006-2015 has gradually decreased as the spread of SMS increased, with the exception of the dramatic spike occurring in 2014 (Statista, 2021). Then once again in 2017, the amount of fatalities is at an all time low with 59 for the year (Statista, 2021). Once the SMS had to be implemented into the company in 2018, fatalities from airliner accidents reduced over the next two years (Statista, 2021). Although the law was made official in 2015, SMS has been getting pushed in previous years to encourage a safer work environment and reduce drastic accidents.


References

eCFR. (2015, January 8). PART 5 - SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Code of Federal Regulations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-5

Statista. (2021, August 18). Worldwide air traffic - number of fatalities 2006–2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263443/worldwide-air-traffic-fatalities/

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