Through the CAA's influence, the aviation industry implements and maintains effective safety management systems that reduce the risk of an aviation accident or incident occurring.
As SMS continues to mature within the aviation industry, the understanding of SMS and the many challenges involved will increase. Developing SMS policies, processes and procedures is just the beginning, and ensuring that these are embedded and adhered to organisation-wide is much harder.
Globally, we are one of the leading regulators on SMS oversight, sharing our SMS guidance and evaluation tools internationally, to enable others to adopt it or adapt it to their specific circumstances. Continuing this is hugely important, as it will ultimately help us to influence both our own industry, and the wider global aviation community.
The effective management of safety is a shared responsibility between the CAA and the UK aviation industry that will lead us all to a safer aviation system.