2.2 Guidebook Audience This guidebook was developed for airport staff responsible for sMs. The person or team responsible for an airport's safety should have in-depth knowledge of SMS and SRM; however, everyone working at an airport is responsible for safety. This guidebook can help anyone-airport stafi, consultant or stakeholder better understand SRM concepts, their practical application in dealing with airport issues that affect safety, and how SRM can enhance job performance The guidebook provides airports with tools to develop, set up, and perform SRM. Airports are the link between aircraft operators, the FAA, and the traveling public. With the right resources to manage safety risks, airports can improve the overall safety of the aviation industry and specifi- cally improve safety for their airport users. SRM used by one airport positively affects not only the airport staff, but everyone involved with, working on, or traveling from that airport and can even reach outside the immediate airport environment and improve the safety for the surround- ing community and its activities Regardless of past or pending regulations, SRM is a proven way to manage safety determining hazards and their associated risks and mitigating them, before accidents occur, thus improvingthe overall safety performance of the National Airspace System (NAS) SRM processes are not restricted to managing safety risk. The techniques can be used in every business. Other airport lines ofbusiness, such as environmental management, use similar approaches to manage the risk of their activities. Risk management, through use of the meth- ods and tools in this guidebook, can be applied to all aspects airport, including property development, concessions, and Fixed-Bas Operator (FBo) operations. Using a common risk management approach is helpful from a standardization perspective. A common approach will reduce confusion among organizational divisions and increase understanding and of risk management throughout the airport community