Originally Posted by
cessnapete 
We must accept humans are fallible, accidents will happen.
Folks,
Some of you here are probably familiar with the efforts of Captain Dan Marino, at ICAO, one of the early proponents of "human factors" studies, and the author of many publications on the subject of aircraft accidents and human factors.
Dan was fond of saying: "All aircraft accidents are human factors accidents".
By that, he meant that the "human factor" could reach right back to original design, where a potential failure, that took years to manifest itself, was a human failure, in that the whatever was not anticipated and designed out, or given a totally inadequate risk weighting.
Arguing that there is no such thing as an "accident" is pointless, the whole object of the exercise is to minimise "occurrences that lead to adverse personal, community, social or economic outcomes"( I am multi-lingual, I also speak fluent bureaucratese, as well as English) , without bringing a sector of aviation to an economic or operational standstill by imposing "zero accidents" "policies".
That is: Get the risk management right, and keep the criminal law out of it.