What's the difference between SMS and a Safety Management Program?

SMS is a necessary and key component of a larger, more comprehensive overarching safety program. A full safety program includes specific standards, policies, procedures and expectations for the flight organization as well as a means to monitor and measure flight organization performance and safety trends. SMS alone does not address all of these critical elements. The Baldwin program encompasses all of these components under one umbrella into one complete, technologically advanced system.

A high-quality safety management program is time-consuming and expensive to develop, implement and maintain in-house. Baldwin clients benefit from the time, expense and effort that was expended in developing Baldwin’s software and safety program. For those organizations that already have some of the components of a complete Safety Management Program, but are lacking the additional tools that close the loop by monitoring and tracking safety related information, our SMSplus™ program can be up and running in less than a week. Baldwin's comprehensive SMS program can be implemented in less than 30 days and, if you so choose, a full Safety Management IS-BAO certifiable program can be implemented in 4-5 months. Instead of reinventing the wheel for each flight organization, we simply tweak our program to meet the specific needs of our clients. Makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?