The basic point of SMS is to regard safety as an equal part of a business, such as an airline or a flight school. I'll split down SMS into its four components to better describe it: Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion. SMS is a formal, top-down, business-like strategy to managing safety risk that incorporates a systemic approach to safety management, as well as the requisite organisational structures, accountabilities, policies, and procedures