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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.

Updates to this page

From:
Ministry of Defence
Published:
15 June 2023
Last updated:
1 September 2026
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  1. JSP 815 updated following Defence Reform and new Safety Op Model.

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

  3. Updated JSP 815: Defence (SMS) Direction and Guidance, Elements 1 to 12 and Annexes A to H.

  4. Updated Annex D - Head of Establishment responsibilities (Element 5) v1.2 and Annex G - Assurance self-assessment toolkit (Element 12) v1.1.

  5. Added a link to 'Defence Acquisition Safety Policy (JSP 376)'.

  6. First published.

Documents

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

PDF, 597 KB, 18 pages

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

PDF, 406 KB, 16 pages

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

PDF, 443 KB, 18 pages

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

PDF, 1.45 MB, 23 pages

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

PDF, 343 KB, 17 pages

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

PDF, 377 KB, 14 pages

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

PDF, 489 KB, 20 pages

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

PDF, 504 KB, 15 pages

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

PDF, 308 KB, 12 pages

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

PDF, 2.34 MB, 14 pages

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

PDF, 348 KB, 13 pages

JSP 815 - Element 12: Assurance v1.3

PDF, 423 KB, 18 pages

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

PDF, 477 KB, 9 pages

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

PDF, 193 KB, 6 pages

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

PDF, 214 KB, 7 pages

JSP 815 - Annex D: HoE ResponsibilitIies v1.3

PDF, 212 KB, 6 pages

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

PDF, 161 KB, 4 pages

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

PDF, 340 KB, 21 pages

JSP 815 - Annex G: Assurance Toolkit v1.3

ODS, 59 KB

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

PDF, 1.22 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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