Where Birds Don't Fly

There is an expectation that for an SMS program to conform to regulatory compliance the enterprise must have in place a process for safety authorities, responsibilities and accountabilities are transmitted to all personnel. If this process is not in place the enterprise a non-compliance System Finding under Canadian Aviation Regulation (CARs) 107.02 may be issued to the operator.  CARs 107.02 is system compliance regulation, or a design regulations for a regulatory compliant Safety Management System. When the design of the SMS is regulatory compliant, then the processes executing the SMS design must also conform to regulatory compliance. In other words, these two compliance components are the design component and the operations component.  For operators in Canada the design requirements are found in CARs 107.02, for both airlines and airports. The operations requirements are found in CARs 705.151 and CARs 302.500 respectively. The manufacturing of this chain complies with the ...

This is a blog with no relevance to any opinions, facts, research or science, but a trivial blog written for continuous improvement in safety by thinking beyond the horizons and outside the box. For continuous safety improvement to be effective thinking outside the box is vital for the collection of unbiased data and then bring this data back in the box to be analyzed for safety improvements. We don’t manage risks; we lead personnel, manage equipment and validate operational design for improved performance above the bar of acceptable risk level. Improvements begins outside the box. Risk level analysis is traditionally established by applying likelihood, severity and exposure. In a risk level analysis, the exposure is always equal 1 for the hazard to become a risk to aviation safety. Without exposure, there is no risk. Birds is a hazard to aviation safety. However, birds that are 100 miles away from the flight path are not a risk to aviation, but still classified as a hazard to aviation...