An organization’s approach to Management and Accountability says a lot about its safety maturity

Taking from the “Five Themes for Excellence in Safety Management Systems (SMS)”, we can look at the means a facility holds its front-line supervisors and managers accountable for safety through this lens of excellence and measure the maturity of the safety culture. To recap the progression, here are the five levels:

1. Ad-Hoc
2. Managed
3. Standardized
4. Predictable
5. Excellence

Using the organization’s SMS and how it holds its front-line supervisors and managers accountable for safety, we can see where they lie on the path to SMS Excellence.