Auditing, rorting, safety enforcement (ARSE) and the houseboat syndicate lotto numbers?
Oleo:
The weighting of the ICAO audit report still rings in my ears: 16.62%
Imagine the audit score if it was done today??
Okay so we’ve got 16, 62 so far…but I’ve also come up with the numbers 17 and 25, why you may ask? Well 17.25 was the first registered Safety Trend Indicator score by FF of the Transair AOC, see here:
March 2000
CASA completed a safety trend indicator (STI) assessment of Transair. The STI revealed the following findings:
§ Key personnel experience
§ Procedure/process change
§ Organisation size change
§ Requests for corrective action (RCA)
§ Difficult operating conditions
§ Performance limit
§ Inadequate documentation
§ Inadequate processes in practice
§ Immature safety system
§ No corrective action system
The STI weighted score was 17.25. The CASA surveillance procedures indicated that a weighted score above 7 was classified as a ‘high risk’.
Passing strange indeed that this score never triggered a ‘Special Audit’
, in fact the following years of system based FF auditing and surveillance of Transair netted scores of 15, 12, 12, and then surprise, surprise a 3.
So maybe we could be a bit wicked
and pretend that the 16.62% was a FF Safety Trend Indicator score, which would suggest that FF is 9.62% over the threshold for a ‘
high risk’ organisation. Coupled with the previous FAA NCN/RCAs issued and with point 3 (see below) more than adequately covered by this thread and the Senate inquiry, we could safely justify the FAA conducting a ‘Special Audit’ of Fort Fumble.Note: Probably even got more than enough evidence to present a ‘Show Cause’ case in the AAT at least.
4.2.4 Special Audits
A Special Audit may be planned when:
- An STI score indicates certificate/permission holder to be a high risk. Certificate/permission holders are prioritised according to their STI score
- Follow up Safety Alerts and RCAs indicate that the certificate/permission holder is a potential safety risk.
- Other information suggests the existence of an increased safety risk.
Note: Just curious but I wonder what the STI weighted score was for Pel-Air, Barrier, Airtex, Skymaster, Alligator, Hardys, Polar etc..etc??
Ok Oleo for our lotto numbers we’ve got 16, 26 (lotto numbers don’t go up to 62 so we’ll just reverse 62),17, 25, 15, 12, 3 and 7 for the sups.
Maybe we could get the Hoodoo Voodoo doc to deal his tarot cards to check our numbers as it obviously works for him…just a thought?
