helimatt: I'd heard that the eddy current inspection was going to be removed.
The idea of lowering the life of the blades does not sound like a cure for the current problem, in fact I can see reasons for "applicable" operators to ignore such a directive because the existing life of the blades appears to be adequate. (That is assuming that all failed R22 blades had exceeded 2200 hrs).
Once again, a few miserable bastards have, out of greed and perhaps ignorance, stuffed it up for the rest!