Our Safety-Management-System is designed to proactively identify and minimise hazards and the resulting risks before they cause damage to aviation. In accordance with ICAO requirements, it consists of 4 main elements:

1. Safety Policy and Objectives
2. Risk management (Safety Risk Management)
3. Safety Assurance
4. Safety Promotion

The following overview of our Safety-Management-System is provided for the information of our customers and suppliers.

It also serves as a basis for reporting safety incidents. A reporting system is available for you to report hazards and/or risks to us. The report can be made anonymously. All you need to do is tell us what the hazard or risk is (see Reporting System, section 4).

As a supplier / subcontractor of Stükerjürgen Aerospace Composite GmbH & Co. KG, you will work under the responsibility of our manufacturing licence.  You are therefore integrated into our Safety-Management-System (SMS). For further information please refer to our Procurement Guidelines. You can find them as a download in our imprint.

Impressum – Ferdinand Stükerjürgen Unternehmensgruppe für Kunststoffverarbeitung

1. Security Policy and Objectives

The Accountable Manager of Stükerjürgen Aerospace Composites GmbH & Co KG is committed to providing our customers with the highest levels of safety, quality and service. We will ensure compliance with all applicable laws, meet all applicable requirements, implement procedures to improve safety standards and provide the necessary resources and training for effective safety management to continually improve our standards. We encourage all our employees, suppliers and customers to report safety incidents or potential risks, no matter how insignificant they may seem at the time. We promote a Just Culture that protects our employees and treats them fairly when they openly report safety, quality and compliance concerns. Safety is not the responsibility of one person or one department, it is the responsibility of everyone in the organisation and it is everyone’s responsibility to follow this policy and strive to improve our safety standards at every opportunity. The principles of human factors are always taken into account when implementing the security policy. It is ensured that all employees understand that everyone has a daily obligation to pursue safety, quality and compliance with regulations as described in this safety policy. The safety policy is reviewed annually and adapted as necessary.

The objectives have been defined to fulfil the safety policy.

We maximise the security of our operations through a positive safety culture, risk management and continuous improvement. By providing safety procedural instructions, we can achieve a high level of our safety objectives:

– Manufacturing safe products
– Continuous operational safety
– Proactive employee involvement in product/flight safety and hazard reporting
– Compliance with the processes, procedures and policies related to the
– Production and ongoing operational safety of SAC products
– Comprehensive safety risk management of compliance and conformity assurance processes
– Safety as a primary responsibility of all managers

A Safety Manager and the Safety Assistant Manager have been appointed to implement the safety policy, objectives and overall safety management.  

2. Risk Management

Our safety management system ensures that product-related hazards are identified throughout the performance process and that the associated risks are effectively analysed and managed. Our safety management process is an integral part of a corporate culture that promotes a proactive approach and aims to minimise or eliminate risks at an early stage.

The culture of safety is promoted by

– Involving employees
– Open communication of errors, hazards and risks as well as actions taken
– Increasing efficiency through early identification of hazards and risks
– Reducing errors

The Safety Manager is responsible for implementing the process. The process begins with the structured identification, collection and sorting of product-related hazards. A hazard is defined as an existing or potential condition that can lead to injury, illness or death, damage or destruction of a system, equipment or property or environmental damage.

Hazards are identified proactively via the context analysis, the checklist of interested parties and audits. Hazards are identified reactively through the reporting system, as well as through complaints and blocking processes.

The risk is defined as the potential to cause damage as soon as one is exposed to the hazard. If the hazard cannot be influenced, the aim must be to reduce the risk.

The risk classification is the result of the assessment of the probability of occurrence and the possible impact of a risk. After the risk assessment, actions are defined to avoid and/or minimise the risks.

3. Safety Assurance

We have defined key performance indicators to monitor safety performance and evaluate the achievement of safety targets. These are reviewed regularly. If targets are not met, the cause must be identified and action defined.

When changes are made to the organisation, responsibilities, processes, resources or products that present a hazard and could therefore lead to a risk, the safety risks arising from these changes must be identified and controlled.

Safety management is subject to a continuous improvement process (CIP). The aim is to establish safety management in the company and implement it effectively in order to minimise product-related safety hazards and risks. Findings from the review of the SMS lead to improvement measures, such as adapting the safety management process, focussing on specific risk areas or risky products, specific changes to the production process or activities in development operations, training measures, etc.

4. Safety Promotion

Safety Promotion aims to make employees aware of safety issues. Important topics that are communicated within the company include safety policy, safety objectives, explanations of hazards and risks, reportable incidents and the reporting system, and Just Culture.

Just Culture and reporting safety related incidents

‘Just Culture’ is practised in our company as a culture in which employees are not punished for actions, failures to take actions or decisions that are in line with their experience and training, but in which severe negligence, deliberate violations and destructive actions are not tolerated. The Just Culture is lived according to the following principles.

– The relationship of trust is consistently exemplified by management and can therefore grow through all levels: The Just Culture will be modelled top-down in order to function bottom-up.

– The reporting system is unbiased, confidential, independent and a non-disciplinary point of contact with a high level of expertise and a trustworthy reference person. The reporting system is modern, user-friendly and easy to use for all employees.

– The implicit commitment to provide feedback to every reporter and to design the system so that it can be accessed even for anonymous reports. Emphasises the need for employees to feel that the system has an impact – for example, visible action, or at least a perceptible balancing of risks and possible actions.

– The importance of privacy for those reporting is clearly defined, as is who has access to the data and what can be done with it.

The civil aviation safety system is based on feedback and learning from accidents and incidents. The reporting of occurrences and the use of information to improve safety depend on a relationship of trust between the reporter and the organisation responsible for collecting and analysing the information. This requires strict application of confidentiality rules.

The person who reports safety incidents does not have to fear any negative consequences, even if he or she is the perpetrator. If a person is reported, they will also not have to fear any negative consequences (only intent and serious negligence will result in disciplinary action).

– Everyone has a responsibility to report safety incidents. Especially if the incident falls within the person’s area of responsibility or work.
– The information will only be used for the purpose of ensuring aviation safety.
– It is also possible to report anonymously.
– The reported information is only accessible to the Safety Manager and a designated representative.
– There are no barriers to reporting.
– Everyone is encouraged to report safety-related information.
– Every report will be processed and responded to.

Link to the reporting system