On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:04:35 -0800 (PST), Adrian Tymes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>minimal human inspections that in practice are rarely more than formalities <rant> Thinking of safety inspections as formalities is a good way to get people killed. A safety inspection is not a formality. It is an integral part of any competent operation, as anyone who has crashed because of an inadequate preflight will tell you. To rephrase: a safety inspection is not a formality designed to assure that everything is shipshape. A safety inspection, properly performed, is a technical procedure performed by a hostile SOB who is looking for an excuse to ground you. If he fails, you get to fly, and you're safe. If he succeeds, you don't get to fly, and you're still safe. How detailed you want the QI SOB to inspect, and how often, and operational matters affecting your bottom line - but treating safety inspections as formalities affects your bottom line much more negatively, by wrecking your ship, destroying your cargo, killing your passengers, and making you look like a real idiot on Fox News. </rant> -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
