Where Birds Don't Fly

Do as I say, and not as I do is a common management system within airlines and airport operators, and it is their definite purpose to set the stage for an accountable executive (AE) to use ultimate powers at their own discretion.  The safety management system (SMS) regulations are set up for one person to make the final decision. This is not wrong, incorrect, or bad, but safety in aviation has not yet evolved into the concept of SMS but is still operating in the pre-SMS era where safety was used as an emotional tool to design corrective action plans. Cultural change is time-consuming, and it could take a generation before SMS has fully evolved. In the meantime, accountable executives will continue to make emotional safety decisions. The regulator is onboard with this, and it does not help the aviation industry to evolve into a successful SMS, that regulatory inspection focuses on other than SMS assessments. It was not long ago that the regulator admitted not to have fundings for fu...

The safety management system (SMS) to learn what goes right every day but very quickly became a tool to catch failures by airport and airline operators. When the safety management system was sold to the aviation industry, it was promoted as a tool to help operators identify safety risks before they become bigger problems, or accidents. A safety management system does not predict when future accidents will happen but when used correctly it is a system that prevents accidents. An SMS does not predict a specific time (speed), space (location), and compass (direction) when an accident will occur, and prevented accidents goes unnoticeable. Since prevented incidents and accidents goes unnoticed it does not make sense that a successful SMS must focusing on capture such data.  A safety management system is a modular system built on two fundamental modules. Each one of these two modules function independently of the other module, but both modules need to be designed and developed before a s...