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Old 18th April 2008 | 19:40
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"Training aviation professionals about Human Factors".

Now there's a novel concept.

The regulatory authorities preach at us ad nauseam about open reporting within a no-blame culture in order that data can be fed into the human factors melting pot so that lessons can be learned and similar mistakes avoided.

I regret that my personal experience has been that, as soon as those who suffer with power-pi**ed small-man syndrome get a whisper of a mistake they immediately start hunting for breaches of regulations and set out to 'hang' the 'offender', punishing him with totally disproportionate fines and/or loss of licence.

This develops mistrust of the regulator and a tendency for individuals to try to hide errors, which has the totally opposite effect that the system was designed to create.

I'm not suggesting that blatantly malicious or reckless negligence should go unpunished - of course the offence should receive an appropriate penalty - but genuine human errors caused by factors that the system is supposed to identify and prevent should be treated with proportional response, not an over the top lust for punitive action.

I'll fetch me coat....................gone!!!
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