Safety Tools vs Safety Managers (RevA): Which Works Best?

All safety programs are only tools. So, to do the work of Safety your company needs someone who knows how to use the tools.

The Safety Manager has to be a "skilled works-man in the trade of Safety." Programs from "on-high" in and of themselves do not Safety make.

The mistake many airlines make is to approach Safety with a not-too-smart manager, who is both excels at "bureaucratic compliance" and intimidating flightcrew, but most often someone who does not have original thoughts nor innovative thinking.

To use all of the Safety tools provided by various Safety advocate organizations a company needs a skilled Safety person, someone who knows how to use the tools to create safety. It is not enough just to dress up in the clothes and look the part, you actually have to do the work or no safety is achieved.