ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits the safety requirements of regulatory authorities and the challenges to safety management (see Chapter 3) in order to demonstrate how to meet them with the use of models and methods presented throughout the book. ‘Safety organization’ is a general term that refers to both theoretical models and techniques for managing safety in organizations. ‘Safety risk management’ is more concerned with the organizational processes and, in particular, the risk management activities for assessing operational hazards, quantifying risks and applying measures for mitigating risks. The content of this chapter is organized in a way that traditional models and techniques of risk management are contrasted with new proposals derived from the material presented in earlier chapters. Since existing risk management models have been promoted by regulatory agencies (e.g., Eurocontrol and EASA) and applied by many organizations in the aviation domain, an effort has been made to show how to elaborate them rather than propose radically different methods that could present a problem of integration with what has been current practice in risk assessment. In this sense, this chapter is not a field guide to risk assessment but a general guide how to improve on existing practices in risk management.
