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6.1.1.1 A safety management system must have the following elements:
(a) the ATS provider’s safety policy and objectives;
(b) the organisational and staff responsibilities for safety matters;
(c) the establishment of the levels of safety that apply to the services, and the monitoring of the levels of safety achieved;
(d) the process for internal safety reviews;
(e) the process for the internal reporting and management of safety concerns and incidents;
(f) the process for the identification, assessment, control and mitigation of existing and potential safety hazards in service provision;
(g) the definition of the interface arrangements, for safety management and related responsibilities and procedures, with internal functional groups and with aerodrome operators and support service providers;
(h) the processes for the management of changes to existing services;
(i) the processes for integrating the ATS provider’s fatigue risk management system (the FRMS) into the safety management system.
Note 1: Guidelines for the preparation of a safety management system are published by CASA in Advisory Circular AC 172-01, as existing from time to time.
Note 2: For subparagraph (i), Chapter 4 provides for an ATS provider to have and implement a fatigue risk management system for the management of fatigue in its provision of air traffic services.
6.1.2 Safety Case Preparation
6.1.2.1 A safety case must be based on a recognised methodology for safety risk assessment.
6.1.2.2 The safety risk assessment in a safety case must:
(a) identify all potential safety hazards associated with the operation of each service, in normal and abnormal modes of operation; and
(b) assess the safety risk of each hazard; and
(c) identify the means of mitigation of unacceptable safety risks.
Note Guidelines for the preparation of safety cases are published by CASA in Advisory Circular AC 172-2.
6.1.2.3 An existing air traffic service or facility that has a demonstrated history of safe operation for at least 2 years before the date of initial certification does not need to be covered by a baseline safety case.
6.1.2.4 A safety case must be prepared to support a new service or a proposed change to an existing service:
(a) the effect of which would be that the service would no longer be in accordance with the certificate issued to the ATS provider under regulation 172.275 of CASR; or
(b) that requires prior notification to CASA because of a requirement to do so in the ATS provider’s safety management system.
Note An internal safety assessment for a change that does not constitute a variation to a service provider’s approval is undertaken in accordance with a service provider’s safety management system.