Measuring and evaluating safety management system effectiveness using Data Envelopment Analysis

Alan J. Stolzer; Mark A. Friend; Dothang Truong; William A. Tuccio; Marisa Aguiar

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2017.12.037

Measuring and evaluating safety management system effectiveness using Data Envelopment Analysis

Alan J. Stolzer, Mark A. Friend, Dothang Truong, William A. Tuccio, Marisa Aguiar

College of Aviation

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Abstract

In January 2015, the FAA released a congressionally mandated, final rule on Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Part 121 air carriers. Since organizations must implement SMS, often at considerable expense, a sound, valid means of measuring SMS effectiveness must be established. The purpose of this research was to develop a model to measure and test SMS effectiveness. It was constructed through a systematic series of steps, ensuring accomplishment of research objectives. While preliminary, this research demonstrates that Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models can be produced to help organizations measure the effectiveness of their SMS and determine how to improve SMS-related performance.

Original language	American English
Journal	Safety Science
Volume	104
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2017.12.037
State	Published - Jan 4 2018

Keywords

SMS
aviation SMS
SMS criteria
SMS measurement
SMS effectiveness
data envelopment analysis
safety management systems

Disciplines

Other Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Aviation Safety and Security
Business
Social and Behavioral Sciences

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