Safety Management Systems and Their Origins: Insights from the Aviation Industry

By Corinne Bieder

Safety Management Systems and their Origins: Insights from the Aviation Industry presents different perspectives on SMS to better decode what it means as a safety approach and what it implicitly conveys beyond safety.

The book uses the aviation industry as a basis for analyzing where the SMS stands in terms of safety enhancement. Through a socio-historical analysis of how SMSs emerged and spread across high-risk industries and countries, the book also explains the other stakes underpinning this new approach to safety management.

Features:

Explores SMS as it is implemented in aviation based on examples from several countries and regions, namely the UK, USA, and Australia. Presents a socio-historical analysis of how SMSs emerged in high-risk industries. Provides insights to explain the existing limitations of SMS. Proposes new avenues to reach beyond the limitations of SMS. Discusses the COVID-19 pandemic within the framework of risk analysis.

The book is intended for safety professionals and regulators, as well as graduate students and researchers in safety science and engineering.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032308931
• ISBN13: 9781032308937
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"