Benefits

Q9. Can you elaborate on Transport Canada’s concern about a future lack of sufficient technical personnel in civil aviation to conduct conventional oversight activities, and reasons for your confidence in SMS as the solution?

Once SMS is fully implemented throughout the industry, it should enable changes to the focus of regulatory audits. Auditors will be able to concentrate on the operation of the SMS system and less on the details of the company procedures. A sound audit program must always address the organization as a whole, but the focus will change to one of confirming the effectiveness of the SMS. Overall, this should result in a reduction in both audit team size and time on site. This should produce savings in resources and efficiency improvements, both for Transport Canada and the industry itself.

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