Originally Posted by safety pee
whereas each requires continuous risk assessment for the expected task and situation.
Thereby placing "umbrella" flight safety policies down at the level of the cockpit wherein the captain must instigate and perhaps defend a decision essentially on his/her own rather than having primary policies such as scheduling, MEL/maintenance, dispatch, fueling, training, standards/SOPs, regulatory oversight and even hiring practises intervene upstream of the circumstances now increasingly forcing such continuous risk assessment at the cockpit level.
PJ2