Oh dear...I remember when the GF flight safety office was closed down....so that "We do not have incidents!"...to qoute a new B767 local management pilot.
Shame is....a good proactive unions of cabin crew... pilots... and engineers provide excellent amounts of technical feedback to management and the flight safety staff and it can prevent accidents and repeated incidents.
If management do not listen or flight safety departments exist then it is logical you get a mess and repeated incidents of the same nature and fatal accidents.
Incidentally.... I also know the reason why the expat individual concerned started the GF flight safety dept in the first place..and it had nothying what so ever to do with safety...and a lot to do with getting rid of ex BA DEC Captains on index linked pensions doing 5 years retirement jobs in Bahrain and blocking commands for good blokes like F/o Rad Gammage and others.
The starter of the GF flight safety dept soon ended up as ops manager after his perceived plan worked a treat and then in due course we got our commands.