Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Uses Of Automation In Safety Management Systems

Safety management system is the term mainly used for certain regulatory works. It is a specific application of quality management to provide safety. Safety management system is used to manage all aspects of safety throughout an industry. Several organizations like air travel, marine shipping etc use SMS.

SMS requires reliable, repeatable data for decision making in a structured and engineered environment. Fundamental issues in any SMS are to identify hazards, assess risk and reducing risk and implement controls to reduce unacceptable risks. Employees must spend most of the time at work to check out the hazards and risk control. So this can be achieved by using automated machines which produce a sound or alarm to indicate about any accident or any hazard. A large number of automated techniques can be used in any of the organizations where SMS’s are found in order to b free from risk. It also requires repeatable data which can be obtained easily by automated techniques instead of doing it manually.

Automation is important in order to safeguard any management system.