Guidance

JSP 815: Defence Safety Management System (SMS) Direction and Guidance

JSP 815: Defence (SMS) Direction and Guidance provides the direction and guidance to be used by all Defence organisations to assist them with the successful implementation of the requirements set out in the corresponding 12 elements.

From:
Ministry of Defence
PublishedPublished:
15 June 2023
Last updatedupdated:
201 September 20242026 — See all updates

Documents

JSP 815 - Element 1: Leadership, governance and culture v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.89597 MBKB, 18 pages

JSP 815 - Element 2: Organisation and dependencies v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.37406 MBKB, 16 pages

JSP 815 - Element 3: Legislation, policy, regulations and guidance v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.12443 MBKB, 1618 pages

JSP 815 - Element 4: Risk assessments and safety cases v1.2v1.3

PDF, 1.251.45 MB, 2023 pages

JSP 815 - Element 5: Supervision, contracting and control activities v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.08343 MBKB, 1617 pages

JSP 815 - Element 6: Personnel competence, resources and training v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.23377 MBKB, 14 pages

JSP 815 - Element 7: Equipment design, manufacture and maintenance v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.67489 MBKB, 1920 pages

JSP 815 - Element 8: Infrastructure design, build and maintenance v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.27504 MBKB, 1615 pages

JSP 815 - Element 9: Performance, management information and reporting v1.2v1.3

PDF, 1.64308 MBKB, 12 pages

JSP 815 - Element 10: Accident - Incident management and emergency response v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.462.34 MB, 1314 pages

JSP 815 - Element 11: Communications and stakeholder engagement v1.2v1.3

PDF, 1.33348 MBKB, 13 pages

JSP 815 - Element 12: Assurance v1.2v1.3

PDF, 2.27423 MBKB, 1618 pages

JSP 815 - Annex A: Applicability of Instructions for SEMS (Element 2) v1.2v1.3

PDF, 1.63553 MBKB, 79 pages

JSP 815 - Annex B: Exemption Certificate Process (Element 3) v1.2v1.3

PDF, 392193 KB, 56 pages

JSP 815 - Annex C: Duty of Care on Deployments (Element 5) v1.2v1.3

PDF, 432214 KB, 67 pages

JSP 815 - Annex D: HoE ResponsibilitIies v1.2v1.3

PDF, 1.32212 MBKB, 56 pages

JSP 815 - Annex E: Safety Aspects for Letters of Delegation (Element 6) v1.2v1.3

PDF, 397161 KB, 4 pages

JSP 815 - Annex F: SP 815 Mapping to ISO 45001 (Element 12) v1.2v1.3

PDF, 199340 KB, 21 pages

JSP 815 - Annex G: Assurance Toolkit v1.3

MS Excel SpreadsheetODS, 17359 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

JSP 815 - Annex H: Audit Manual v1.2 (editable PDF)

PDF, 2.431.22 MB, 34 pages

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JSP 815: Defence (SMS) Direction and Guidance provides the direction and guidance which is to be used by all Defence organisations to assist them with the successful implementation of the requirements set out in the corresponding 12 elements.

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Published 15 June 2023
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