Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are not simply a regulatory requirements, but a "new way of doing business."
"Yeah, we've all heard these ambiguous praises before," I hear you saying.
Smaller aviation service providers have adopted a not-so-secret weapon that can provide financial benefits, but they are not using it effectively.
Aviation SMS possesses extremely powerful risk management workflows that can level the playing field for smaller operators with business acumen. Before the SMS mandate, smaller operators lacked both the size and sophistication required to benefit financially from implementing quality management systems that facilitate continuous improvement. This has changed!
When the drafting founders of modern aviation safety management systems (SMS) planned to improve systemic aviation safety, these managers understood their industry's predominant attitudes relating to safety vs production. They recognized uncontrolled, ill-disciplined operators unnecessarily introduce intolerable risk into our transportation system.
Astute leaders understand that voluntary aviation SMS implementation will never be seriously considered by owners and senior managers unless operators enjoy a chance to financially benefit.
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) needlessly continue to remain unprofitable after almost fifteen years.
Your aviation SMS also fails to produce profits. Why?
Science and technology are not applied with equal zeal as other high-tech-aviation systems. SMS economic disappointments are very easily seen in smaller operators with fewer than 500 employees. This inequality of high-technology adoption creates financial hardships for smaller operators without the education or capital to implement expert systems that minimize financial costs and human efforts required to demonstrate regulatory SMS compliance.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, Quality-Safety Management
Many newly-appointed safety managers try to single-handedly push their organization's aviation safety management systems (SMS) to success. Safety managers are hired to perform an ambitious undertaking that is not heartily welcomed by the entire organization.
SMS implementations require consistent change management activities. These activities naturally induce frustration and resistance to change.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
Does your aviation SMS make money? Probably not.
Why not? Most aviation SMS failures result from operators consistently neglecting to follow the prescribed aviation SMS recipe as originally designed. Other operators treat SMS as a "check-the-box" obligation to satisfy as expeditiously as possible, thereby consciously neglecting the "presumable benefits."
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are designed to be implemented in a top down managerial style for some "not-so-obvious reasons." For one reason, the "accountable executive" cannot accurately be considered "accountable" when safety initiatives and budgets exist beyond their direct control.
Accountable executives control organizational resources, including finances. Organizational safety financial decisions must be controlled and optimally championed by accountable executives.
Many modern line-level aviation managers maintain an imperfect perception of value relating to cost-effective aviation operations. These immature, untrained value hunters act as if leadership prizes value solely from the bottom-line perspective, no matter where it comes from, or how those dollars magically appear at the bottom of corporate balance sheets.
Your organization's managerial bargain hunters and shrewd negotiators may actually transfer organizational risk to safety as the organization tries to grow and develop its aviation assets. In short, as aviation operations grow, management may attempt to reduce the amount of safety that they enjoyed when they were considerably smaller.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
If you cannot handle emotional pain or controversy today, please don't read this. I certainly don't mean to offend, but I have to say this:
Most aviation service providers are lying regarding their aviation SMS implementations.
What? We just spent tens of thousand dollars on aviation safety management system (SMS) implementation consultants and we don't have an SMS implementation?
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
If you are reading this, chances are you have just begun implementing your aviation safety management systems (SMS). Or, you would like to see how your implementation plan stacks up against the suggested process for creating an implementation plan.
Either way, the important things you need to know about aviation SMS implementation plans are that they:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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