Where Birds Don't Fly

Many operators may have experienced SMS as a burden to the operations and an administrative task only, while other may have experienced tangible positive results as a function of implementing a Safety Management System. Everyone wants to operate safe, but SMS doesn’t always seem to get the job done. Days of working with SMS only add to the issue of operational tasks and incidents and accidents still happens. Endless days and nights of hard SMS work doesn’t get the job done or pays off in safety. All the SMS work seems to be never-ending circles of tasks and the wheels are spinning in one place. Different methods are applied but all it does is to create irrelevant safety tasks. More and more safety tasks are added, more rules and policies are implemented but all it does is generating unnecessary tasks. At the end of the day SMS haven’t made a bit difference in safety and it has not moved away from what safety was several years ago. Year after year the focus was on safety management safe

The latest news reports for airlines and passenger jet-aircraft are that 2017 was the safest year on record for commercial air travel with zero fatal accidents. When counting cargo planes and passenger turboprop aircraft, there were both fatalities to passengers and bystanders on the ground. This safety record may be contributed to several factors. Some might say that this is due to the implemented Safety Management System (SMS) in aviation, while other might say that this is due to enforcement of regulatory compliance. What to remember is that there are no self-made safety operators. Safety is a conglomerate of independent, but cooperative systems, processes, procedures and organizational policies. When an accident happens, it is an over-simplified solution to immediately place blame on the safety management system, in the same manner as it was over-simplified solutions to always blame A stable system could be effective for years to come. accidents on pilots. It could be that there wa