Originally Posted by
thefodfather
I think it was possibly me who dreamt up the term "Occurrence" in the context the MAA uses it today when we named the D-FSOR and defined all the associated terminology. I was a serving officer at the time but it was still DASC at that point, although the reality was we didn't overthink it as ICAO Annex 13 had done the hard part for us.
While you may have introduced the term ‘Occurrence’ to the MAA that very term had been in use in civil aviation (EASA/CAA/FAA, etc.) Safety Management Systems for some years (as in ‘Mandatory Occurrence Report’) well before the MAA formed after the Haden-Cave report. In later Safety Management System vocabulary, the term used is now Event or Safety Event - again to down-tone any emotive interpretation.
And when the MAA introduced such reporting i believe they were call DASORs - that I suggested should see the withdrawal of CONDORs - Still dont know if that happened?