Madeleine, With this, I give up with the ping pong.
At least you post in your own name!
You are all in hopeless denial.
But for a lucky accident (if you can call it luck : all it was was a time which could have rolled a different dice), certainly not anything you can take credit for, the outcome of that inquest would have been massively different.
And in that situation:
- The hopeless lack of any attempt on the part of FRA to control safety planning documentation or process which would have actually helped stop the horse bolting, (that because of a result of failure to consider safety process in any of the years preceeding, entirely the fault of FRA)
- The duties and expectations set by previous inadequate rules, (now made worse by a lame agreement to a coroners statement)
- The unwillingness of FRA to contest that obvious fact, in saying that tracking is nowhere near as good as the rules imply it can be
- The questionable evidence presented, such as stating overcounts as bad practise, not contested by FRA in as far as I can tell,
- The aggressive questioning by none other than the very advice on which you seem to rely!
Those would have all been nails in a coffin for an RO. If you think that is support, I would hate to see what happens if you don't support someone. We can only thank heaven it all turned out to be relative immmaterial to the outcome (that time ).
But instead of thanking your lucky stars, and making the changes really needed, you make it worse instead. You can't even see it: Instead You make life impossible for the only guy on committee who could have helped solve it - because he was not "On message"
The one you should be listening to is Pete Bland.
You should not do anything he can't sign up to.
He has been there. You have not. Sat at the sharp end.
Such as Wynn ( my concern) who have similar problems to Pete.
There is no need to give RO the duties you have created for them as tripwires.
I cannot be bothered to write more, but please READ my definition of the words hazard and risk, and correct those basic errors in documents.
Then start thinking about safety management
I can only say think hard about the value of a unanimous acceptance of a set of rules or letter. It is the same as the vote for the July rules, and everyone knows how bad they were....