Security and Safety?
Standards for both corporates and individuals have been slipping for years. It is not until the regulator takes real and meaningful action will things improve. AOC and airport operator suspension, Accountable Manager and Postholder removal, heavy fines, loss of license etc. etc. will assist greatly and help to focus the minds of those accountable and responsible to operate in a legal and fit and proper manner.
What hasn't changed over the years is that there will always exist some pilots, cabin crew, dispatchers, handlers, security staff and their respective supervisors and managers and auditors that are not suitable persons to be employed in the industry.
From the sharp end's perspective, it will be interesting to read the report on the incident and particularly on how and what the pic reconciled and signed off on given the dispatcher / handler paperwork and the cabin crew count.
And for those airlines who do not check and count, and pass on or contract out the responsibility to the gate as a time saving measure, it is simply and a deliberate exercise in wilful ignorance.
Safety is no accident!