Where Birds Don't Fly

The beauty of excellence or mediocrity is that these are choices and options. Every single airport or airline can operate without one single Transport Canada finding. Excellence in operations is a choice and not a condition. There are no good reasons that an enterprise should be given findings after an inspection. Clarity in operations accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of clarity is more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That’s why we say that " Success is goals and all else is commentary. " A simple first step is to comply with the Safety Management System is to set goals for your operations.  The perfect first step for a goal achievement plan. Operators with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than operators without them could ever imagine. This is true everywhere and under all circumstances. Only by discovering your innate strengths...by developing them...exploiting them t

A safety management system in aviation is a reactive system to data collected, but a proactive to the degree of comprehension of data received. The aviation industry, being airports and airlines regularly collects data for analysis. Data collection does not in itself prevent incidents from occurring unless data is comprehended with initiatives or corrective action plans. If data is not comprehended operations may continue without corrective action plans. Often, data is ignored if the type of incident which this data would generate is without prior exposure. After high publicity and fatal incidents comments for explanation is often this was the first time this type of incident happened, which in itself identifies a lower data comprehension level.  Anything is possible with systems comprehension. When an enterprise has decided that it is impossible to predict 100% of special cause variations 100% of the times, that is when SMS becomes the most valuable tools for proactive CAPs. This is d