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Measure Why Things Go Right

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The safety management system (SMS) to learn what goes right every day but very quickly became a tool to catch failures by airport and airline operators. When the safety management system was sold to the aviation industry, it was promoted as a tool to help operators identify safety risks before they become bigger problems, or accidents. A safety management system does not predict when future accidents will happen but when used correctly it is a system that prevents accidents. An SMS does not predict a specific time (speed), space (location), and compass (direction) when an accident will occur, and prevented accidents goes unnoticeable. Since prevented incidents and accidents goes unnoticed it does not make sense that a successful SMS must focusing on capture such data.  A safety management system is a modular system built on two fundamental modules. Each one of these two modules function independently of the other module, but both modules need to be designed and developed before a safet