JV, well said.
From an earlier post, I wouldn’t hang the “uselessness” of SMS on Transport Canada or their CAIs. The dawn of SMS was a good idea but an untested idea. Over time, it’s effectiveness has only been successful in limited ways at very few operations. It’s become an administrative process out of scope.
Best implemented at small carriers with no safety program in place. Unfortunately, executive authority at a small carrier was handed to the owner (as it should have been) but proved, in many cases, to be a conflict of interest, not a solution for safety concerns.
Willie