What Is a Safety Management System

Organisations may decide (or be required) to operate an SMS which is compliant with a specific local or international standard. By developing a consistent process that is compliant with the standard or standards, its requirements can be flowed down and inherited by the SMS. Those who are undertaking a CRM assessment can follow the SMS without necessarily concerning themselves with the specific details of individual standards - ultimately achieving compliance by abstraction. 

A CRM assessment will generally be a cost to the project (although of course one can argue the ultimate value add of the assessment more than recuperates that cost). The cost needs to be included in the project business case but quantifying it early in the product lifecycle can be a challenge. By developing a repeatable SMS, one is able to better predict the likely effort involved in applying that process to a particular product. 

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