Mark Newton wrote:
Robert Hart wrote:
FYI - at its recent meeting, Gliding Queensland has decided to make
some state based efforts to improve safety. It was decided to start
with encouraging the reporting of incidents (not just accidents) and
to build an online database at the GQ web site. That database would
allow us to find and act on trends at the club and state level,
hopefully before the incidents become an accident.
I'm fascinated by this, and other comments you've made in the past,
which seem to suggest that incident reporting is a foreign concept
in Queensland.
No - of course not!
:-)
(and I am fascinated that you can extract such inferences from the fact
that we are so worried about poor incident reporting that we are doing
something to rectify the situation - interesting logic usage)
The problem is that MOST incidents are NOT reported (there is strong
evidence from form 2 'repairs' that suggests some accidents are not
being reported, particularly heavy landings). For the incidents that are
reported. we (pilots, clubs and state organisations) then have no access
to the data and so analysis is not possible. Unfortunately, the Ops
panel does not make such data on incidents as it does receive from
across Australia available - nor does it seem to provide any trend analysis.
We are of course particularly interested in incidents as these are the
precursors to accidents - trend analysis allows the finding and fixing
of systemic problems before there is an accident.
Furthermore, it is very clear that we do not have an incident reporting
culture across Australian gliding. Gliding Queensland can do nothing
about that for the other states, but it can - and is - trying to do
something about that in Queensland.
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Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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