The U.S. NTSB first recommended that Safety Management Systems (SMS) be implemented by Part 121 airlines—something the FAA now requires—in 2007, then called for the same requirement for public ...

Think of an SMS program as active safety management. Credit: designer491/Alamy Stock Photo In November 2015, a chartered Hawker 700 stalled and crashed while on a non-precision approach to Akron, Ohio ...

The manufacturing industry is more competitive than ever, rewarding forward-thinking manufacturers who successfully accomplish quality, safety and environmental responsibility in their operations.

Many organizations on a global scale embark on a journey to implement structure into their operations at a systematic level. A management system has a place within how we can operate to eliminate ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced new changes to its impending Compliance, Safety, Accountability program overhaul. This time, FMCSA followed trucking industry feedback to help ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – The Army Materiel Command enterprise is undergoing a safety management system overhaul – important for the safety and health of its 165,000-strong workforce across ...

Managers at all levels of any organization or facility involved in activities that could give rise to radiation risks or intentional acts that might harm people, society and the environment, must ...

Global companies face global safety risks. That's one of the lessons learned after the 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, affected Union Carbide's worldwide operations. In part because of this global ...

FORT NOVOSEL, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center’s Army Safety Management Information System 2.0 continues to lead the way toward the Army’s first truly centralized safety and occupational ...

As part of the ongoing movement to make the industrial world a safer place, networked (or bus-based) safety systems may finally be getting the respect they deserve. An evolution of sorts is occurring ...

An effective and sustainable management system at a nuclear facility integrates such issues as safety, security, safeguards, health and quality, to ensure that strategic decision making does not take ...