Where Birds Don't Fly

When focus is on failures in a safety management system, the mind becomes attracted to failures and seek failure opportunities. The simplest way to misuse a safety management system (SMS) is to only focus of failures, incidents, hazards, and occurrences. A successful SMS focuses on what goes right, and what the reason is for a successful outcome.  The law of control is how a person feels positive about themselves to the degree to which they feel that they are in control of their job performance. This is called a sense of coherence, a sense of control. It means that when they feel that they are in control they feel happy, and they feel at peace with themselves. A person also feels negative about themselves to the degree to which they feel they are not in control of their own job performances and keep making mistakes. Job results are not necessarily their mistakes but are issues they were involved in and reported to the SMS. There could be a hazard, or incident reporting daily. A person

Safety is in everyone’s interest, but not everyone has a passion for safety. Generally, safety is defined as the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. Danger is the state of being unprotected from external or internal forces. Risk is a probability calculation for an event to occur. Injury is physical or emotional damages. Safety is such a broad definition that it does not specifically describe future occurrences but is used to eliminate or reduce opposition to implement reactive events. Air travel has a reputation for being the safest mode of transportation. That everyone will be safe when travelling is a wish but is not attainable unless it becomes a goal of how to eliminate danger, risk, or injury. An aircraft may hit clear air turbulence at 41,000 feet, which then tears apart any wishes for a safe flight. A passion for safety is not to wish for a safety outcome, but to accept the forces of nature and work within acceptable unsafe parameters.