A welcome, or at least interesting change in strategy by EASA.
Patrick Ky;
"EASA is moving away from a legal approach to regulating to one that is focused on safety. The rulemaking branch was reshaped to team with the oversight branch for better understanding of how the rules are implemented and what their effects are, he said. The regulators were also reminded to focus more on risk than on prescriptive rulemaking. We are not aviation lawyers.
Regulation is not the goal. The goal is safety.”
A cynical view of this might question that if EASA have been not focused on safety, then what have they been doing?
And why continue to implement rules without fully understanding their effect?
" ... EASA should rely more on mature safety management systems that are already in place, and partner on best practices, rather than prescribing those practices. This is a fundamental change,”
Is the assumption that mature safety management systems exist correct; if so how are these 'good' systems identified.
Is the implied causal link that maturity implies a good safety system correct?
We are only as good as the next accident; in modern operations many emerging risks may not be clearly identifiable.
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