EHEST Safety Management

Updated May 2013 - The EHEST Safety Management Toolkit has been created by the Specialist Team Operations and Safety Management System (EHSIT ST Ops and SMS) of EHEST, the European Branch of IHST. It has been developed with consideration given to Annex III of the EU regulation on Air Operations, Part ORO Subpart GEN Section II ‘Management System’ and the relevant AMCs and GM published in October 2012, and is therefore specially adapted to European operators.

The Toolkit is available for Complex Operators. Version 1 published on August 2012 was based on an advanced Draft version of the rules, AMC and GM. Version 2 was aligned to the regulatory material published in October 2012. The changes are not essential, but were necessary to align the manual to the published material. In the end, it remains the responsibility of the operator to ensure that they update their Safety Management Manual (SMM) to comply with the applicable regulations.

This Safety Management Toolkit targets Complex Operators as set out in AMC1 ORO.GEN.200(b) Management System, and will be mostly beneficial for those operators with little experience of running an SMS.

The Toolkit contains the following components:

EHEST Safety Management Manual for Complex Operators – 2nd Edition, 2013

The EHEST Safety Management Manual (SMM) for Complex Operators V2 has been developed with consideration given to the Annex III of the EU regulation on Air Operations, Part ORO Subpart GEN Section II ‘Management System’ and the relevant AMCs and GM, published in October 2012.

This SMM has been created by a team of professionals whose experience covers a variety of different backgrounds including EASA, National Aviation Authorities, manufacturers, operators, helicopter associations, operator and pilot associations, etc.

This SMM is a sample manual designed to assist an operator in creating their own manual. It must be adapted to appropriately reflect the operator’s organisation, needs, nature of operations and procedures, and should not be applied ‘just as it is’.

Note that having a compliant SMM does not mean that they have an SMS in place. The SMM is solely a reference document that describes and documents the SMS. The SMS must then be created through an adequate implementation plan that requires commitment from the management and the personnel within the Company.

EHEST SMS Safety Management Manual V2

The EHEST Emergency Response Plan (ERP)

Having an ERP is required under ORO.GEN.200 for both Complex and Non-Complex operators. The EHEST ERP is designed to help the organisation to respond in the case of accidents, serious incidents or any other abnormal event triggering a crisis. The ERP describes the policies and procedures to be implemented in case of a crisis, and offers advice to the members of the crisis management team in carrying out their roles and in managing internal and external communication.

The ERP must be adapted to appropriately reflect the operator’s organisation, needs, operations and procedures and should not be applied ‘just at it is’.

EHEST SMS Emergency Response Plan V2

The EHEST Safety Management Database User Guide

The EHEST Safety Management Toolkit provides example registers of some of the typical helicopter hazards and risks developed by the Safety Department of Eurocopter for Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operations. These registers of hazards and risks are a unique feature made available by the EHEST to the helicopter community for safety management purposes. It must however be taken into account that risks will differ depending on the operator, nature of operations and any existing barriers in place. So, the registers provided by the EHEST are just examples that need to be tailored by the operator.

The EHEST SMS approach considers the creation of at least the following three types of safety database:

 1.  A database listing the hazards to which an organisation is exposed.
 2.  A database of undesirable events and corresponding hazards.
 3.  A database of all other events/activities which may include exposure to risk.

Examples are provided for each of these three types of database as follows:

EHEST SMS Safety Database User Guide

The User Guide also describes the relation between these database and how these database are to be used and updated for safety management purposes. 

 

Download the EHEST SMS Toolkit v2.

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