Raising the pay to get more quality ground staff is.
I work at a place where a ramp worker is paid EUR 30 per hour, plus extras. On a public holiday doing overtime, they're clocking close to 80 EUR per hour. They are the highest paid non-skilled workers in the land, and it makes no discernible difference safety wise to our neighbouring countries, where the same worker is paid the industry average.
I never quite understood how a walk-around inspection can reasonably be said to have fulfilled it's purpose, when it's
always performed whilst ground handling is taking place. Surely the only correct time to complete this activity, would be
after all ground handling has ceased, all equipment bar the jetty/stairs and push-back has been removed and nobody's driving any piece of equipment around inside the circle-of-safety.
But that'll add 5 minutes to the turn-around times, and we all know safety is only the number 1 priority until the bean-counters dictate otherwise.