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Airport SMS & emergency readiness

Start with the evidence.

Take a five-minute self-assessment, see your review topics and prepare a conversation about the next step.

01 Answer ten questions02 Review your summary03 Plan a conversation
For discussion, not certification.
This is an educational checklist, not a validated scoring instrument, FAA compliance review or prediction of inspection readiness. Time periods and quantities in these prompts are review cues, not a complete statement of legal requirements. Confirm which requirements apply to your airport.
01 Has your Accountable Executive signed a safety policy statement within the last 12 months, and is it posted or distributed where airfield staff and tenants actually see it?

Safety policy

02 Is day-to-day SMS oversight assigned to a named person, and is that duty written into their position description with time allocated to it?

Safety policy

03 Do you have a written Safety Risk Management procedure that is triggered by operational change — construction, new procedures, organizational change — and was it used on a real change in the last 90 days?

Safety risk management

04 Is there a hazard register, and does each open item show an owner, a mitigation and a due date that management has accepted?

Safety risk management

05 Can any employee or tenant report a hazard without going through their supervisor, is the policy on when discipline applies written down, and does every reporter get a response?

Safety assurance

06 Do you track at least three safety performance indicators — runway incursions, vehicle/pedestrian deviations, wildlife strikes, FOD finds — and review the trend with leadership at least quarterly?

Safety assurance

07 Has the Airport Emergency Plan been reviewed with every coordinated agency in the last 12 months, and is your full-scale exercise within its 36-month window (or, if not required, have you run a tabletop in the last 24 months)?

Emergency preparedness

08 After your last exercise or real activation, did an after-action report produce corrective actions that were assigned, tracked and actually closed?

Emergency preparedness

09 Have all personnel with airfield access — including tenant and contractor staff — received documented SMS orientation, with recurrent training tracked?

Safety promotion

10 If an FAA inspector asked tomorrow for your last three safety risk assessments and the evidence their mitigations were implemented, could you produce them within an hour?

Safety assurance / records

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