scope:

Purpose of This Order.

This order establishes the Safety Management System (SMS) policies for the Air Traffic Organization (ATO). It defines the scope, requirements, and applications of the SMS in the ATO and gives the responsibility for owning and executing the SMS to all employees at all levels of the ATO, from the ATO Chief Operating Officer (COO) to the individual air traffic controllers and airway transportation systems specialists at a Service Delivery Point (SDP).

Specifically, this order requires the ATO SMS to be the framework for:

• The development of safety policy and processes;

• The promotion of a safety culture that identifies and reports activities that are potentially or actually detrimental to system safety; and

• The identification, continuous monitoring, auditing, and evaluation of hazards and the assessment and mitigation of safety risk within the National Airspace System (NAS) and United States-controlled international/oceanic airspace.