Jim
My view is that a company culture that relies upon the memory of pilots is not an adequate safety culture
But how else could it be? Whether or not the relevant info is in the OM or the RFM is surely irrelevant. Pilots cannot reasonably trawl through all 200 pages of the OM part A and then the 100 pages of the OMB then the hundreds of pages of the RFM before each takeoff. And what about reading through the entire ANO and AIP sections relating to the area of operations?
Sorry but pilot knowledge and memory has to be a key factor in safety culture. That is why we have ground training.
There have on occasion been some attempts to produce flow charts (normally by line trainers for some reason!), in particular relating to weather issues, but they either become ridiculously complicated or only cater for a subset of possibilities.
Sorry Jim but I am not one to subscribe to the view that safety can be created with bits of paper. Safety has to rely on the knowledge, skill and good judgement of the pilots (and of course the other supporting staff)
HC