In light of recent events, Big M has reintoduced a camera policy which will make it nearly impossible for legitimate photo's to be taken.
Refer to Big M's email:
Where an employee wishes to take photographs:
of any part of the workplace, equipment operated by the Company, Company
owned aircraft in maintenance or parked awaiting service, third party or
other operator owned aircraft in maintenance or parked awaiting service,
components or parts of an aircraft, other employees, goods or products
related to the business of the Company, documentation used by the Company,
regardless of its nature, but specifically aircraft operational records,
planning documents, log books, manuals and references, hand over sheets or
books, task cards, hand written or computer records;
Where all of the above are considered to be "confidential and secure
information" as described by the relevant Qantas Policy Manual references,
That employee is to seek written approval to do so, from his / her Duty
Maintenance Manager (as a minimum).
If the employee also wishes to retain those photographs, an extra and
specific approval is to be sought.
That Duty Maintenance Manager may then only grant approval where he / she
is fully satisfied that the request relates directly to a valid Company
related task or activity, AND that the he /she has established that the
recipient of those photographs is a Company employee and further that he /
she has a verifiable and genuine need for those photographs.
In the case of the employee also requesting approval to retain the
photographs, the Duty Maintenance Manager must be satisfied the reason for
such retention is valid.
In either case, the Duty Maintenance Manager is also to keep a file housing
the photographs taken and sent, for record.
A controlled Qantas Form is to be used to grant approval.
The taking of unapproved photographs (within the meanings set out above),
whether forwarded, retained, or stored in the memory of a camera, mobile
phone or PDA, or held on film, will be considered as a breach of the Qantas
Policy dealing with Confidential Information and Security of Information.[/B]
I'm sure DMM's have got better things to do than vet people's happy snaps around the airport so to stop this annoyance the answer when asked will invariably be NO.
Are security now going to ask to see your phone when you enter the base to ensure it doesn't have a camera?
All this policy has done is to drive the taking of photo's underground, it won't stop it happening just make it harder.
Possibly the next step is to make it a Cardinal Rule,a sackable offence to take photo's.
Who know's whats next: No group meetings, so you can't talk about events, perhaps blinkers so we can only look in one direction
