Guy,Guys,
Get a grip. First it was the Millenium bug, then terrorism, followed by bird flu, the credit crunch & now swine flu.
We are either living in fear of the world shutting down due to computer failure, being blown up, loosing our homes or dying of some virulent desease, oh & if you are a licensed engineer being thrown in jail for not following the new EASA rules to the letter.
If you are a conciencious engineer just carry on doing the job like you always have done, no one is going to die because you did not change the seat belts so you are hardly likely to be hauled up before the courts over it. We all know that the CAA will only prosecute if they have a cast iron case against you.
Can anyone remember the last engineer to be found guilty let alone jailed for negligence?. A few years ago a Licenced engineer was tried for a blatent bodge on a helicopter which directly led to the deaths of several people, he was eventually found guilty of "not keeping adequate records"
& as far as I can remember, walked.
As for back to birth investigations, what a load of rubbish, If a part is on a, lets say, 1000 hour overhaul look back through the logbooks 1000 hours, no record of change, then change it. If its a 10 year life, no record,
replace it. Simple. If everyone else has missed it & you then miss it, then it is probably so far hidden in the maintenance schedule that every subsequent engineer/CAMO is going to miss it as well & as such is probably not that important & will not cause a catastrophy.
RELAX!