Sunfish,
Would you believe that every ATC in Airservices has recently been through training sessions on the Airservices Safety Management System.
The motto of Airservices SMS is, "Every individual is responsible for safety". It has been driven home long and hard to every ATC. There is a strong safety "culture" within Airservices, and consequently, every ATC feels responsible to report anything they feel unsafe. This is evident in the posts on pprune about NAS.
And the case study Airservices uses to demonstrate how not having a safety culture and robust Safety Management System can lead to catastrophic failure......Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (the second space shuttle hull loss) and NASA.
Yep, even the Americans can get it wrong. What about airspace?
DP
Last edited by DirtyPierre; 7th Sep 2004 at 23:31.