Dave said:
>>>That seems odd when several recent mishaps in both
the commercial and military are directly related to a crew (or a pilot)
disregarding one or both, policy and procedure. If I remember correctly,
the
last figures I saw attributed something like 20% of all mishaps with
primary
or contrubuting causes involving noncompliance.
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Dan Maurino conducted a study two or three years ago in which he found that
Procedures were involved in Active Failures in 16 of 24 reports analysed,
and Procedural Deficiencies in 15 of 24 Latent Failures. Dan may have more
recent information on this significant area.
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Policy and procedure form a framework in which we all must operate. This is
true in any walk of life. Departure from the framework puts one, one's
crew,
and others in a world without rules.
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SOPs (or simply Standard Procedures, not to alienate our maintenance
engineering community) and the issues of non-adherence and over-adherence
are the subject of an Aeronautical Society conference in London later this
year (Sept. 24). I will send Neil a draft programme to post when the
line-up is confirmed.
Season's best wishes,
Rick Heybroek
LOFTwork ltd.