The SMS Experience
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...