The risk acceptor is accountable for: 

• Ensuring that all monitoring activities are being recorded in the Safety Management Tracking System; 

• Ensuring that performance data needed for the monitoring activities is being collected and analyzed to verify that the safety performance target(s) are being met; 

• Determining the need to reconvene an SRM panel if performance data indicate that the predicted residual risk is not met and/or if the risk management strategy is proven to be inadequate; and 

• Coordinating a reassessment of the predicted residual risk, safety performance target(s), and/or monitoring plan if a safety requirement identified by the SRM panel cannot be implemented. 

## 6.4.2 Risk Acceptance Outside of the Air Traffic Organization 

If the affected party is outside of the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) (e.g., navigation or weather services), each organization responsible for establishing requirements for contracted services accepts the risk into the NAS. Lines of Business (LOBs)/organizations outside of the ATO (e.g., Office of Airports, Office of NextGen, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or Office of Aviation Safety) are also responsible for components of the NAS and have a role in accepting safety risk. 

ATO vice presidents, directors, managers, and supervisors must work closely with their counterparts in LOBs/organizations outside of the ATO to help ensure that the appropriate party or parties accept and manage any safety risk resulting from NAS changes. Again, it is not in compliance with ATO policy to implement a NAS change without having first accepted any associated safety risk. Refer to Federal Aviation Administration Order 8040.4, Safety Risk Management Policy , for policy on cross-LOB risk acceptance. 

