Originally Posted by Two's In
Still waiting to see a good alternative to opening your eyes and engaging your highly trained brain...
Its not a question of finding an
alternative to proper training and a professional attitude towards ones work, its a question of recognising that there are times when people do things they didn't intend to. Ever been to the supermarket and picked up a bottle of diet cola when you meant to get full fat? Or one brand of beans when you meant to get another? Well, perhaps you haven't, but many will admit that they have done this because the packaging looks similar. And why aren't the flight deck/cockpit switches for the flaps/landing gear and avionics all mixed up with, and the same shape as the weapons switches?
No amount of training or telling people to open their eyes will stop people from making simple, yet potentially catastrophic errors if the component parts of a screw-up are all in place. Similar shaped tins of different oils, and a harrased tradesman are two such component parts, remove one and you stop the screw-up don't you?
Make sure all tradesmen are working under conditions that ensure they
always engage their brains in every situation, not least very familiar ones...yeah right, good luck
Change the shape of the cans of oil so that tradesmen are given a chance to spot the fact that they may be about to put the wrong oil in the wrong system....sounds good to me.
Or, to put it another way..
In an episode of the Simpsons Marge becomes addicted to gambling in the Monty Burns casino. When Homer finally gets her to realise she has a problem she tells him she needs professional help. Homers solution is a lot simpler...
"Oh no thats too expensive, just don't do it again".
Ultimately, when you have a couple of jets 'hangarised' with contaminated systems because of wrong oil poisoning, what the tradesman
should have done becomes irrelevant; what they
did do was put the wrong oil in.