Where Birds Don't Fly

A safety management system (SMS) is a regulatory requirement for airport and airline operators, the SMS regulations are performance-based, processes must conform to regulatory requirements, but still, a healthy SMS is lawless. In a lawless system events are unrestricted, actions are reactive to immediate threats, and data are collected by random chance. A safety management system contains multiple components to conduct research study of patterns. Research study design is a framework, or the set of methods and procedures used to collect and analyse data on variables specified in a particular research problem. A safety management system research study designs comes in many shape and forms, with advantages and limitations. A rule-based SMS is an overcontrolled system to justify an expected definite and unambiguous output. A system where predetermined results exists, is a system without trust, without learning, without accountability, and a system where information sharing impossible. A la

Conventional wisdom is that by micromanaging reports submitted to a safety management system (SMS), their operation becomes a safer place. Micromanagement is where managers feel the need to control aspects of their processes and personnel decision-making to an extreme degree, more than what is necessary or healthy for a usual working relationship. Micromanagement overcontrolling may take form of a light, medium or high level of overcontrolling, to an extreme level where a person become obsessed with overcontrolling processes. Organizations establish rules, both written and unwritten rules, and acceptable practices, to what, when and who are eligible to submit SMS reports. These rules are established to manage the probability of reports shared and shedding an unfavorable light on the SME enterprise. However, reports submitted to the SMS are confidential reports, and proprietary property of the organization. SMS reports are only shared to a third-party by the AE, and an SMS manager is no