Experts who advised the review blamed a series of accidents, including the Nimrod crash in Afghanistan, on cost-saving measures that removed the requirement for middle-ranking officers to undergo extensive training in safety compliance.
I sincerely hope he’s come up with more than this after 22 months.
In addition to said cost savings measures (dating from around 1991-onwards), MoD is now awash with grossly inexperienced staffs who simply don’t see the need in the first place. At least in the past someone saw the need, made provision for it, but was knocked back by BCs or suppliers.
As with the Gray report (last week) the answer is to implement the mandated regulations. Funny, that’s what ACM Loader reiterated in the BoI report. I hope someone in MoD sees the commonality between the two reports. I can just see the official responses in a few months time, from different areas, contradicting each other on the same subjects.