Monitor
Operations and environment
Flight performance, C2 health, automation, maintenance, batteries, weather, airspace, infrastructure, and suppliers.
About • SMS Components
Safety Assurance
Operational evidence shows whether the SMS and its risk controls are working, where the environment is changing, and what must improve.
Learn
Reports and investigations
Confidential reports, events, near misses, external notifications, noncompliance, and causal analysis.
Evaluate
Audits and performance
Process audits, SMS evaluations, safety objectives, indicators, trends, and management review.
Improve
Corrective action
Containment, systemic correction, accountable owners, due dates, evidence, and effectiveness verification.
Application to UAS and AAM
For UAS and AAM, this component should account for command and control, automation, energy systems, vertiports, UTM services, cybersecurity, public exposure, maintenance, human factors, and emergency interfaces.