Gentlemen, thank you for the translation. What an interesting reaction to safety concerns. Shoot the messenger!
"The management has an unofficial system of removing bothersome employees. If you're sick, land with too much fuel remaining in the tanks, or do something else 'wrong,' you're given a demerit point. When you've accumulated too many, they'll fire you,"
These don't sound like the complaints of 'strange' pilots. Any self respecting airline pilot would be bothered by such a culture.
What the article describes is an active blame culture. Pilots should obviously not fly when they are sick, should have the final say on fuel decisions and should not fear retribution for mistakes and errors which there is no culpability.
Safety management in complex organisations is becoming well understood and JAR-OPS states the following: 'an operator shall establish an accident prevention and flight safety programme, which may be integrated with the Quality System, including programmes to achieve and maintain risk awareness by all persons involved in operations'
It is not easy to understand how the system of demerit points described by Peter Helland contributes to a safety culture.