
About SAAS
Safety & Wildlife
Safety Management System (SMS)
SMS provides a management system for integrating safety activities into normal day-to-day business practices. It is a formal, top down, systematic approach to identify hazards and control risks.
SMS includes four components – Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion. SMS helps enhance safety by facilitating the development of an organization-wide safety policy and implementing methods to proactively identify and mitigate hazards.
- One of the key features of an effective SMS is to hold each person, regardless of his or her position, responsible for safety performance.
- In the San Antonio Airport System (SAAS), the Aviation Director is the highest ranking official, and therefore is the Accountable Executive.
- The Aviation Director ultimately assumes full responsibility for the SAAS SMS; however he can delegate the day-to-day operational responsibilities of the SMS to the Assistant Aviation Director.
Objectives
Safety Objectives identify SAAS’s commitment to aviation safety.
- To motivate safe actions through the establishment of a “Just Cause”.
- To recognize and report unsafe practices.
- To train all employees about the SMS Plan and procedures.
- To share with tenants the SMS Plan and work cooperatively with their SMS Plans.
- To ensure that safe work practices will take precedence over expediency.
- To prevent and protect the health and safety of employees, airport users, and the public by reducing losses arising from accidents.
- To monitor and communicate the effectiveness of the SMS Plan to employees, tenants, and the public.
Airport Safety Division Organization
Airport Safety Division Contact Information
Lenny Irwin, Airport Safety Manager
210.207.3511
Administrative Assistant
210.207.1691
Warren Johnson, Airport Safety Analyst
210.207.3521
Mario Diaz, Airport Safety Analyst
210.207.1664
Marcus Machemehl, Wildlife Biologist
210.207.1663
Safety Hotline, 24 hours a day
210.207.1600
Safety Division Email
[email protected]
Safety Division Fax
210.207.1689