initiatives on significant causes, events, and hazards that necessitate remedial action, thus, advancing risk-based decision-making initiatives. 

## 1.1.4 SMS Benefits 

ATO processes and tools that support the SMS help: 

• Provide a common framework to proactively and reactively identify and address safety hazards and risks associated with NAS equipment, operations, and procedures; 

• Encourage intra-agency stakeholders to participate in solving the safety challenges of an increasingly complex NAS; 

• Reduce isolated analysis and decision-making using integrated safety management principles; 

• Improve accountability for safety through defined managerial roles and responsibilities and S afety R isk M anagement  processes; 

• Integrate Safety Assurance processes that enable the ATO to effectively measure safety performance; 

• Promote a continuous cycle of assessing, correcting/mitigating, and monitoring the safety of air navigation services; 

• Foster a positive safety culture that can help improve system safety; and 

• Measure the performance and support the improvement of the SMS. 

