Ex Cargo Clown;
Thanks very much - that's the kind of feedback I was wondering about. I've had the DG course as well, (we did it every year at annual recurrent) and got a small certificate that we were required to carry along with our licences. I think you're right about the processes in general - experienced eyes, etc. Just to be clear I'm not "gazing towards cargo people" here but rather asking the questions and making an observation about human factors vice any sense of "negligence". It's hard to capture the sense of a freight operation in anonymous text while at the same time avoiding drawing conclusions from only that text. The rarity of such accidents alone, speaks to the safety of the process. But we have a another fire-on-board accident and we're all thinking about why.
best,
PJ2