A I R L I N E
12 April 2014 AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY
R
ichard Komarniski is a believer in keeping things as
simple as possible when it comes to regulations. W hat
the president of Canadian-based Grey Owl Aviation
Consultants found when he talked to Canadian carri-
ers charged with implementing a safety management
system (SMS) was that some of them "made it too complicated."
So complicated "that even the president of the company …
didn't understand the program."
W here SMS per se comes into play, he contends, is "the safety
of the aircraft and safety of the operation itself." Komarniski
believes a lot of people think they must factor employee safe-
Keep It Simple:
How to Craft a 121 SMS Program
Since implement-
ing SMS, Miami
Air has combined
maintenance and
operations pub-
lications under
one roof - to get
the word out to all
that need to know.
If neither the person who's supposed
to be running the show nor the guy
on the shop foor get it, it's a safe bet
a safety audit will refect confusion
By Jerome Greer Chandler
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