Last year I spoke at the excellent safety event organised by Líder Aviação in Rio de Janeiro. My question was “Is SMS enough to make our organisations safer?” [Update, I gave a similar talk at EBASCON 2017 in Munich and I made a more elaborate resource page which details more explanation and links here] This question.. read more →
The purpose of SMS: “Is SMS enough to make our organisations safer?” It was my great pleasure to speak at the excellent safety event organised by Líder Aviação in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro on 20-10-2015. In this presentation I asked the question if we need to do more than just build the bureaucracy of the SMS.. read more →
Sometimes organisations just added “implement SMS” to a long to-do list. Once the implementation is considered “done” they forget to look back and ask themselves “What is SMS supposed to do again?”. The basic assumption of an SMS is to move from ad-hoc, reactive management of safety to a more systematic and pro-active approach whereby.. read more →
What is the difference between effective safety management v.s. the Safety Management System? Many people and organisations confound the Safety Management System and effective Safety Management. The SMS is the tool through which Safety can be managed. One way to think about it is comparing it to a financial management system. First of all the.. read more →