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Aviation safety management

A safety management system is strongest when it is connected to daily operations. Keeping documented procedures and everyday practice aligned is what an SMS is designed to support, and it makes audits and occurrence reviews straightforward. IGX360 Insights keeps the documented management system and the operational picture side by side.

Jurisdiction
Varies by regulator and state of registry
Regulator / Authority
UK CAA; EASA; national civil aviation authorities (per ICAO Annex 19)
Status
In force
Relevant instrument / framework
ICAO Annex 19 (Safety Management); implementing requirements vary by regulator, e.g. UK CAA and EASA Part-ORO / Part-ORA
Last reviewed
September 2026

10 ways to get ahead on Aviation safety management

Establish how the work runs today

  • Process discovery
  • Current-state mapping
  • Operating baseline
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We do not know how work really happens”

A governed, connected view of how work runs gives every team the same starting point. It replaces individual descriptions with one baseline that can be queried, owned and kept current.

See who owns a process, what it depends on and what a change will affect

  • Process architecture
  • Operating model visibility
  • Change impact analysis
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We cannot quickly see who owns a process, what it depends on or what a change will affect”

When processes, roles, systems, risks and controls sit in one connected model, basic questions take minutes instead of analyst-days. Ownership, dependencies and impact can be seen together.

Prove your compliance with evidence

  • Continuous compliance
  • Control assurance
  • Audit readiness
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We think we are compliant but cannot prove it”

Traceability from obligation through process, owner, system, control and retained evidence lets you show how a duty is met, whenever you are asked.

Map where operational failure would spread

  • Operational resilience
  • Critical service mapping
  • Dependency analysis
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We do not know where operational failure will spread”

An end-to-end view of critical outcomes, dependencies, concentration, substitution, controls and recovery assumptions shows where resilience is strong and where to strengthen it.

Bring your documented process and daily work together

  • Design-reality gap
  • Process validation
  • Execution alignment
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Our documented process is not how the work actually gets done”

When the process model and daily execution are connected, the model stays useful and governance reflects real work. Approved workarounds become part of the design.

Turn execution evidence into learning

  • Learning from execution
  • Execution evidence
  • Governed learning
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Our systems tell us what happened, but not why the process failed or what to change”

When execution evidence is retained and connected, the organisation can see not just what happened but why, and what to change.

Connect risks, controls, processes and obligations

  • Risk-control traceability
  • Obligation mapping
  • Connected assurance
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Risks, controls, processes and obligations are disconnected”

A connected process-centric risk model shows which processes create each risk, which controls operate within them and where coverage can be strengthened.

Turn regulatory change into process change

  • Regulatory change impact
  • Obligation-to-process mapping
  • Compliance agility
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “When regulations change, we cannot quickly identify every process, control, system and role affected”

Connected impact analysis identifies affected processes, systems, controls, roles and suppliers consistently, so implementation starts from a complete list.

Make governance shape what people do

  • Governance execution
  • Policy-to-practice
  • Control observability
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Our governance says what should happen, but does not reliably control what people actually do”

Governance that changes tasks, decision thresholds, approvals, escalation and evidence capture is governance you can rely on in operation.

Make your safety-management system shape daily work

  • Safety management system
  • Operational safety assurance
  • SMS embedding
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Safety-management systems do not reliably shape daily work”

When mitigations, competence, occurrence reporting and assurance are embedded in workflow, the safety-management system shapes daily work.

IGX360 Insights supports mapping, evidence and assurance. Regulatory interpretation and accountability remain with the organisation.