Safety Policy
Safety Risk Management
Safety Assurance
Safety Promotion
SMS History & Overview
100

LAWA strives to develop and maintain an informed, encouraged to report, given just treatment, flexible and continuously learning environment.

What is Safety Culture?

100

Process that involves five steps that includes describing the system, identifying hazards, determining associated risk, assessing associated risk, and treating the associated risk.

What is the Safety Risk Assessment?

100

The process used to analyze safety trends, identify new hazards, and to evaluate the effectiveness of new and existing mitigations measures.

What is Safety Performance Monitoring (SRM)?

100

A shared set of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that influence how people perform their work and manage risk.

What is Safety Culture?

100

The LAX SMS Program will be fully implemented on or before

What is March 2027?

200

This is the enduring doctrine which drives continuous improvement in safety and communicates airports management commitment to SMS.

What is the Safety Policy Statement?

200

The underlying conditions that could potentially lead to accidents.


What is a hazard?

200

This system enables employees and stakeholders to report confidential safety concerns. 

Confidential Hazard Reporting System
200

At LAX, Safety Promotion is divided into three categories: Safety Culture, Training and 

What is Communication?

200

A formal, top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and ensuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls. It's a systematic way to identify hazards, assess risks, and implement controls to mitigate those risks.

What is Safety Management System?

300

This identified the key roles and teams that drive the LAX SMS program.

What is the SMS Organizational Structure?

300

Measures the likelihood and impact of these accidents if the hazards are not controlled.

What are risks?

300

This website: 

https://sms.lawa.org




What is the location to access the confidential hazard report portal?

300
Individuals who are issued a LAX Security Identification Display Area (SIDA) badge must complete

What is Safety Awareness Orientation training?

300

The Airports SMS activities per 14 CFR Part 139 are applicable within.

What is the LAX AOA?

400

SMS goals that enable continuous monitoring to enhance the airports safety performance.

What are Safety Objectives?

400

The structured approach to identify, analyze, and manage safety risks within aviation operations.

What is the 5-Step Process?

- Describe the system

- Identify Hazards

- Determine Risk

- Assess Risk

- Risk Mitigation 

400

The Airport will make a good faith effort to establish a data sharing relationship with airport stakeholders who are required to maintain SMS under Part 5 or have established a voluntary program.

What is Data Sharing and Reporting?

400

In addition to completing SMS Safety Awareness Orientation training, individuals with specific responsibilities identified in the LAX SMS Program must be provided

What is SMS Specialized Training?

400
The system of record for the Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion.

What is Veoci?

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