Originally Posted by
Sunfish
- the F111 DESEAL/RESEAL disaster.
The F111 deseal/reseal mess was one of about four case studies in an OH&S textbook I read about ten years ago.
The point was made that the reason Australia had health problems with RAAF personnel, while the USAF had no problems was that...
Originally Posted by
Sunfish
......and probably many more hidden.
...in the US the job was contracted out, and the contractors used illegal Mexican labour, then walked away from their workers long before problems arose.
In Australia we had a problem because we did things somewhere near right, while in America they hid their problem by inflicting it on people who would go away.