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Q6. Transport Canada is among organizations that show emergency-response plans as a basic element of SMS. Why was this included, and why has a similar link between SMS and aviation security been omitted?

No matter how effective an organization’s SMS is, errors will happen. SMS will help mitigate the impact of the error through risk management, hazard analysis, risk profiling and other tools. However, emergency response preparedness is still required to help the organization moderate the impact of the event from an overall response perspective.

There are plans to introduce similar requirements into the aviation security regulations. However, the security requirements are outside of the scope of the Canadian Aviation Regulations. In practice, many Canadian certificate holders are already incorporating aviation security as well as occupational safety and health (OSH) and environmental requirements into their SMS analysis.

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