Where Birds Don't Fly

A system without defined roles has little or no chance to function as intended. Lets for a minute look at a None Destructive Testing system, or NDT. NDT is a system to detect “undetectable” flaws in a material, or if production process produces output of flaws in the material. There are different independent system within an NDT system and none of these systems are compatible to interact with any of the other systems. The major NDT inspection systems are X-ray inspection, ultrasound inspection, magnetic particle Inspection and fluorescent penetrant inspection. A system of defined roles within a process. The system of X-ray inspection is applied to inspect for flaws within a material to relatively fine and defined resolutions.  Ultrasound is also applied to inspect for flaws within a material, but to a relatively course and undefined resolutions. Magnetic particle inspection is applied to both internal and external material flaws discovery. The NDT inspection system applied for exte...

About 4 years ago, the first blog in this post was written and published. Since then safety never got bored, or bunt-out, but became more exiting to work with as time went on. The first story was about the Safety Management System and how aviation has evolved from the “trial and error” method to proactive and no longer accepting that accidents happens. There was never an acceptance of accidents, but the aviation industry did not make necessary changes until it was too late and a catastrophic event had happened. Over the last decade or so, SMS in aviation has been accepted as the New Generation of Aviation Safety. It is widely accepted that there is no profit in operating without documentation of established safety processes. Safety has become a task to check the job completed box. There is still an ongoing debate of what SMS actually is with multiple and inconsistent answers given. SMS is simple in concept, but often buried in bureaucratic paperwork and presented to the aviation indust...