Where Birds Don't Fly

We don’t Manage Risks.  We Lead Personnel;  Manage Equipment; and  Validate operational design for improved performance above the safety risk level bar. When done right, SMS is gonna make it a great day. The Safety Management System (SMS) are integrated Project Management and Quality Leadership of Business Strategy Solutions. It has for a long time been wrongly assumed that SMS has the powers to reduce aviation accidents. There is no doubt that a true SMS will have a positive effect on operations and reduction of accidents, but it is not possible to allocate lack of accidents to the SMS unless an Enterprise runs an identical, parallel and virtual Non-SMS operation, or an SMS simulator, where multiple decision-making processes and decision options are available. A businesslike approach to safety is to lead the Safety Management System in the direction of visions, goals and services. By doing what you would do if your airport or airline operations were exactly that organiza...

A paper airplane has no other direction but down. Safety Management System (SMS) in aviation does not make good business sense in its current concept of abstract ideas, plans and intentions but without facts and tangible results. The cost for regional airlines to implement a regulatory required SMS were almost unbearable. SMS had promised the airline industry that there would be a reduction in accidents, because SMS would solve all problems. However, SMS did not deliver what was promised when an airline had a fatal accident some years later. SMS was and illusion and many fell in the trap believing that intentions will make a difference. It did not, and it does not make good business to run a business based on intentions. Imagine if major suppliers demanded cash return because of their intentions to sell services or products. Intentions in business don’t hold water. SMS was sold to the aviation industry as an intention to reduce accidents. The intent was perfect, but accidents are still...