the actions his crews are taking are succeeding, since they are not having accidents.
Flew for quite some time for an organisation who saw rules, regulations etc as an impediment to getting the job done. The fact that they had never had an accident in nearly thirty years of operation had management believing that there was no need to do anything to address the shortcomings. In that time of course there were a number of extremely close calls, mostly near CFIT events (Nicks favourite) which arose principally from a VFR operation operating in IMC. A veil of secrecy always descended around any such event so that upper management remained in the dark, and of course no documentation of such incidents was ever made.