C441! Boxes MUST be ticked!
If we don't take that seriously, why the tickers would be out of a job and then there's the government department in charge of thinking up more pages of boxes to be ticked that could go under. Think of the unemployment!
Friend of mine ... one of the poor buggers who has to get out of his jet after doing a charter and go through security with his bags before returning to the very same aeroplane to do a RPT flight next… got nobbled to do the required on line risk assessment course. He pointed out the stupidity of having to waste his time sitting in front of a computer and then completing the exam when his whole day at work is assessing risks and deciding on fuel loads, holding, alternates and all the other decisions a pilot makes as part of the job. Clerk couldn’t see what he was on about. He was required to do the course for his self improvement and he’d DO IT!
Another friend told me that the day everyone on the tarmac HAD to wear a high viz vest from now on or else! … a prettily attired pilot was wacked by a tug. So much for fluoro clothing reducing accidents.
Long live the do gooders.