SMS represents an active, systematic approach to airport operational safety issues and aims to increase

safety in a targeted and systematic way. This means actively looking for potential risks and minimizing

those risks which have been defined and could lead to personal injuries or damage to property.

To achieve this objective, predictive methods (safety studies) along with proactive methods (audits and

inspections) and reactive methods (investigation of causes of events) are used.

The causes behind events are rarely simple and usually stem from multiple causes. In 99.9% cases, an

event is caused by a number of minor errors, any one of which would never have caused the incident by

itself. They are minor issues we face every day or errors we make on a daily basis.

If the Safety Management System ever stopped proper functioning and these minor issues began to accumulate

operation is at risk.