Chief Executive Officer/General Manager ensures Aviation SMS is reviewed and evaluated at regular intervals. Process of establishing your Aviation SMS will lead you to decide how often this is best achieved.

Regular reviews enable you to measure the effectiveness of your Aviation Risk Management System.

When Aviation SMS is in place, assigned aviation safety inspectors will assess effectiveness as part of surveillance process.

These eight elements in place is of course just the first stage in building an effective Aviation SMS. You will need to integrate these elements into your airline organization for them to be fully effective.

Eight-step process relates to any flight operation. Eight step process involves:

1. Aviation Safety Policy
2. Management accountability
3. Establish process to manage flight-safety risks
4. Setting up a aviation safety reporting system to record flight hazards, risks and actions taken
5. Training and educating staff
6. Auditing flight operations and investigating incidents and accidents
7. Setting up aviation safety management system to control documentation and data
8. Evaluating how aviation safety management system is operating