Originally Posted by
alfred_the_great
the problem with that line of thinking is that the flying types are also accepting responsibility for things they have no SQEP in - infra risks in particular.
which is why the DH organisation should have a “senior operator” and a “senior engineer” to provide that SQEP to whomever does hold that risk.
I hear what you're saying but (standby for a terribly flippant comment) the base infrastructure is less likely to crash into a town and kill scores of civilians so the risk is not quite the same.
Health and safety at work laws exist in the same way and many senior managers have to take responsibility for things that are beyond their remit. For instance if any employee died at work because a fire exit was blocked, then someone can be prosecuted as a result. The manager/owner/executive in that case will not have been an expert on fire safety but there are many checks and balances to assist them.
The world of flying does sit apart from all of those things because of its very nature. Could you really expect a non-flyer to understand enough about the operation of aircraft to articulate themselves in court?
BV