If HC wanted to remove the Byzantine complexity of air safety management then we have failed miserably - the amount of staff-work in generating ASMPs at every level has created 'paper-safety' where everything must be safe because it is on a list or in a matrix.
It looks like a gigantic a*se-covering exercise which, although it does hold senior officers responsible, doesn't actually make anything safer in the cockpit.
The amount of guff that has to be waded through in order to provide 'assurance' gets in the way of decent pre-flight planning and 'mission-bubbles' especially when everything is computer driven so no-one has any books in their ops rooms when the IT goes phut!
The latest thing to address the MAC RtL is FLARM - a computer database for glider activity which only shows those gliders that have it fitted and is, by its nature, historic and out of date as soon as you leave the ops room.
The only thing more pointless is bow-ties - who on earth thought that made anything safer????