Safety Management Systems and their Origins

<p><em>Safety Management Systems and their Origins: Insights from the Aviation Industry</em> presents different perspectives on SMS to better decode what it means as a safety approach and what it implicitly conveys beyond safety.</p><p>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.</p><p>Features:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Explores SMS as it is implemented in aviation based on examples from several countries and regions namely the UK USA and Australia.</li> <li>Presents a socio-historical analysis of how SMSs emerged in high-risk industries.</li> <li>Provides insights to explain the existing limitations of SMS.</li> <li>Proposes new avenues to reach beyond the limitations of SMS.</li> <li>Discusses the COVID-19 pandemic within the framework of risk analysis.</li> </ul><p>The book is intended for safety professionals and regulators as well as graduate students and researchers in safety science and engineering.</p>