Cabin Safety Management Systems

A Safety Management System (SMS) is:

  • The systematic management of the risks associated with flight operations (including cabin), related ground operations, and aircraft engineering or maintenance activities to achieve high levels of safety performance.
  • A business-like approach, with realisation of an acceptable level of safety being the result of successful management techniques.

SMS can be applied to cabin operations and help airlines reduce the number of turbulence-related injuries, inadvertent slide deployments and other safety issues.

This can be achieved through the integration of the different components of an SMS to cabin safety-related activities.

All these components and their application to cabin safety-related activities are addressed in this section of the IATA Cabin Operations Safety Toolkit.

Download the components of the Cabin Safety Management Systems Section below:

For further information on the Toolkit or IATA's Cabin Operations Safety Programme, please contact Mr. Benoit Pilon at cabin_safety@iata.org.