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When SMS Becomes Personal

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Safety Management System is not new to aviation but started in 1903 at the moment of the first flight. Back then SMS was all reactive and safety was not improved until an accident had happened. When SMS is directed from the bow. For the first 100 years or so of aviation history, SMS in aviation was reactive and reactively improved safety processes after the fact. Over time, aviation industry leaders believed the airplane could not reach its full commercial potential without federal action to improve and maintain safety standards. With the implementation of a landmark legislation in 1926 the issuance and enforcement of air traffic rules, licensing pilots, certifying aircraft, establishing airways, and operating and maintaining aids to air navigation became available. Despite this, in 1926 and 1927 there were a total of 24 fatal commercial airline crashes, a further 16 in 1928, and 51 in 1929, which remains the worst year on record at an accident rate of about 1 for every 1,000,000 miles

Possibility or Probability

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That there is a possibility does not imply that there is a probability. Possibilities are variables while probabilities are facts. Probabilities vary due to the effect of possibilities. A possibility is often applied to safety as a fact with an undisputed path for an event to occur. Possibility is the expression of a desire for an event to occur, while probability is an analysis of facts to establish a likelihood level of an event to occur. When possibilities are applied to regulatory compliance operations gradually become a system failure, or a dysfunctional operation, while with the application of probabilities the operations improves their safety, or functional systems and operates with an effective SMS. There is a possibility that all marbles remain in the bowl, but a low probability. Probabilities are levels of the likelihood of one possibility, or the confidence level of a prediction that an event will occur in the future. There is only one possibility applied, but this possibili

SMS: An Umbrella Or A Wheel

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There are many names associated with the Safety Management System (SMS). A Safety Management System is often addressed as an additional layer of safety, but does not address what other layers of undefined processes this is an addition to. This statement is widely accepted as fact without analyzing the other underlined processes.  Several of steady improvements in the accident rate during the lifespan of aviation was attributable to improvements to technology, such as the introduction of more reliable engines and navigation systems. Pilot error, or human factors, were assigned as the root cause of accidents each time there was an accident. This root-cause statement included a statement that a person had failed to comply with a regulation or standard which had been arbitrary implanted by the State.  Umbrella is a shield of protection and not s system of safety. More than once a new regulation or standard would be arbitrary implemented after a major accident. Assigning the blame to the fl