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Old 8th Feb 2007, 10:26
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oggie
 
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Prevent or punish

I have nothing to with aviation professionally; just a fascinated and occasional SLF, with a career behind me in academic Computer Science.
When I was a student (and that's MANY years ago) I read a book entitled "Road Accidents: Prevent or Punish?". Its author, the County Surveyor for Dorset (in the UK), made a very strong case that a blame-and-punish mindset will never get to the bottom of why road accidents happen, and so will never result in the safer environment everyone wants. He was professionally concerned with issues like junction design and signage, surface dressing and so on.
I was very impressed at the time, and suggest that the same quality of thinking should be the norm for flight crew, boardrooms, engineering operations and regulators, right across the board.
Most of you guys whose office is the flight deck put your lives on the line every day, so I guess this pattern is deeply embedded in the way you operate. Others need to take it on board too!
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