Safety Management

Saturn SMS can provide the following safety management services. Contact us to discuss your requirements.

Safety Management System Assessment

Saturn can provide an assessment of your organisation’s Safety Management System. This will be in a Gap Analysis format with a report and recommendations on discrepancies and observations as appropriate.

Safety Management Plan

Saturn can tailor a Safety Management Plan to your needs. The SMP is vital in providing direction and governance strategies for the organisation. It details who has responsibility and accountability and provides information on what regulation and legislation is applicable. It will detail what safety criteria you are applying and what hazard management strategy you are using. It also details other elements such as your audit plan, how you deal with change management in regards to safety impact. In general it is tailored to your requirements using best practice from the ICAO SMS Manual, the UK Civil Aviation Authority, the UK Ministry of Defence guidelines, US MIL-STDs and FAA guidelines.

Safety Case

A safety case is a safety argument supported by a body of evidence that provides a compelling case that a system/equipment is safe within a given environment and within given context. In other words, it is a detailed and traceable safety effort from within your organisation; in terms of hardware to software, and people to procedures, training and so on. It is what you do now and what you are about to do in order to improve. The safety case is a ‘living entity’ and so matures along with your program. A safety case argument is essential when justifying that your System is ‘acceptably safe’; particularly when involving complex systems.

Safety Case Report

A Safety Case Report (SCR) is a ‘snapshot’ in time of your Safety Case (SC). As your SC is ‘live’, the SCR should be recorded in the SMP Safety Program Plan as being required at set intervals (i.e your next milestone, during major modifications, for acceptance into trials, and so on) so that you are able to demonstrate continuous improvement. There will be discrepancies, there will be observations and these need to be managed and given priority and resource in order to be accepted (as a milestone exit criteria) and to improve for the next SCR; hence you may actually improve your safety and proactively prevent an accident or incident.

Hazard Identification & Analysis

Saturn SMS have held many Hazard Identification & Analysis (HIA) workshops. This is essential in the first instance in order to identify a Preliminary Hazard List. From there the program should follow best practice and undertake diverse identification & analysis techniques in order to demonstrate that all possible hazards have been identified.

Saturn SMS have undertaken Fault Tree Analysis for Design Organisations and also reviewing these, along with FMECA data, on behalf of military Project Teams.

Saturn SMS are specialists in undertaking these activities and also of relevance at key stages in the program Saturn SMS have undertaken Zonal Hazard Analysis (ZHA), Occupational Health Hazard Analysis (OHHA) and also Operating & Support Hazard Analysis (OSHA; these are often overlooked or undertaken ‘in-house’ and therefore, particualrly concenring the ZHA, may be considered as ‘marking your own homework’.

Having all relevant stakeholders is key to the success of the Hazard Identification & Analysis safety activity. The outcome will be a report and spreadsheet that will feed into the hazard log.

Hazard Log

The Hazard Log is the core of your Safety Risk Management effort. Safety Criteria will be set in the SMP and the hazard log is the tool from which all safety risks will be managed. Saturn SMS have recently provided a more structured approach based on the accident sequence for use with a Hazard Log. It is important to understand the difference between a hazard and a cause and also where Controls are applied to and who is the owner of those Controls; Saturn SMS can provide a structured approach to hazard management and provide a robust approach to this essential part of your SMS. The differentiators for Saturn SMS is that we do not simply ‘cut & paste’ from regulations or guidelines; we ask more detailed questions and from our extensive research we have arrived at a ‘World Class Safety Model’ that can fit any program.

Safety Criteria

It is imperative that your safety criteria is clearly stated and understood; from that one can apply safety targets. It is of no use to ‘cut & paste’ other project’s safety criteria and apply it to your own; this is happening too often and even Safety Managers can be confused by the differences between safety criteria, safety targets, an Accident Risk Matrix and a Hazard Risk Matrix. Saturn SMS have been involved in understanding and applying these difficult issues practically and can help you understand your system or provide criteria for your new project.