ELEMENT 3.3 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

                   Performance Objective. The organization will develop and maintain a process to identify he causes of sub-standard safety performance, determine the implications of substandard safety performance, and eliminate or mitigate such causes.
                  Design Expectations.y 
       (1) The organization will continuously improve SMS and safety risk control effectiveness
through the use of the safety and quality policies, objectives, audit and evaluation results,
analysis of data, corrective and preventive actions, and management reviews.

      (2) The organization will develop safety lessons learned.
                   (a) Lessons learned information will be used to promote continuous improvement of safety.
                  (b) The organization will communicate information on safety lessons learned throughout the               organization.
                  Continuous Improvement : The organization must continuously improve the effectiveness of the SMS and of safety risk controls through the use of the safety and quality policies, objectives, audit and evaluation results, analysis of data, corrective and preventive actions, and management reviews. 
                As part of the SA function, the analysis and assessment functions must alert the organization to significant changes in the operating environment, possibly indicating a need for system change to maintain effective risk control. When this occurs, the results of the assessment start the SRM process. 
                One of Dr. James Reason’s principles of organizational safety culture is that of a learning culture. The information in reports, audits, investigations, and other data sources is not useful if the organization does not learn from it.
               The SMS Framework requires an analysis process, a preventive/corrective action process, and a path to the SRM process for the development of new safety controls, as environments change and new hazards are identified. It further requires that the organization provide training and information about risk controls and lessons learned

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