Safety Management Systems

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/22026

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Safety Management Systems

(2003)

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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Report 322: Safety Management Systems (SMS) provides an overview of current transportation agency practices, recent literature findings, and reviews of two model state SMS initiatives. According to the report, benefits derived from the SMS process are increased coordination, cooperation, and communication among state agencies and improvements to data analysis and collection procedures, as well as collaborative strategic plans.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board

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Transportation and Infrastructure — Operations and Traffic Management

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2003. Safety Management Systems. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22026.

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Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-vi
SUMMARY	1-2
CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION	3-4
CHAPTER TWO - LITERATURE REVIEW	5-11
CHAPTER THREE - SURVEY RESULTS	12-18
CHAPTER FOUR - MODEL SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INITIATIVES	19-22
CHAPTER FIVE - CONCLUSIONS	23-25
APPENDIX A - 1995 SUMMARY OF STATE REPORTS ON PROGRAM ELEMENTS	26-27
APPENDIX B - 2001 SUMMARY OF SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELEMENTS	28-29
APPENDIX C - THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS FOR FUNDING ALLOCATION WITH REGARD TO SAFETY INITIATIVES	30-32
APPENDIX D - SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE	33-39
APPENDIX E - LIST OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS	40-40
APPENDIX F - SUMMARY OF RESPONSES TO QUESTION 7 OF THE STATE OF THE PRACTICE QUESTIONNAIRE	41-41
APPENDIX G - DRAFT CRITERIA FOR HAZARD ELIMINATION SAFETY BONUS POINTS SELF CERTIFICATION	42-42
ABBREVIATIONS USED	43-43

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