Thanks for all your replies.

However, the current events seem to show that blame will be put on the individuals from 1 department, while the other department will get off without any blame.

So no hope of getting at the root causes.

Yes, there was a bit of non-compliance. That stems from management imposing unnpractical procedures on an operation that is different from other operations, but for the sake of "standardisation" needs to have the same procedures with the same parameters.
Never mind our different reality..

Politics.:yuk:

If it helps, you could take another look at procedures which could generate factual evidence and provide suggestions as to the areas of concern – solutions. It might be a tool that management could be introduced to, or at least the results.
The background material and assessment method is in:-
SKYbrary - Assessing Procedures (OGHFA BN)
and the downloadable checklist here:-
http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/635.pdf
I recall that there was an interactive XLS version somewhere – FSF ?

It seems like you work for an organisation who are just "tick in the box" merchants.Unfortunately not the time to vote with your feet - in the mean time cover your ar5se! Good luck