Safety Matters

[alwaysinjured]

AI when you keep managing to alienate the people who are sympathetic to your views then you know it's gone wrong. Did you even read the part where I denigrated the committee too? Maybe insulting both sides doesn't work very well as a political tactic.

I am not currently an RO so I did not have to make difficult decisions last September, but I certainly do not blame Wynn in any way for deciding she could not stay with the FRA at that time.

And I do not know of any rules that would have helped Mike if the failures had played a critical role in Brian's sad death.

Quote Karate Kid. Best form of defence is "no be there"

Rules would not have helped. Any sane RO knows you have to be as sure as you can of who left, and who came back, so writing rules that say that are not helpful, and the rulebook is of itself no help on the day. No official reads the rulebook at a race to know what their job is.

So it was not about rules: the problem was the tasking of specific people to do specific jobs, and making sure those tasks covered the bases with redundancy so a cockup did not become a catastrophe. A plan tasking people that stopped things falling through cracks between people. That is how a safety professional would tackle it. Not with additional "rules"

My entire involvement in this was because wynn felt very vulnerable - with rules she could not comply - including a rule that said that would void insurance. An unimportant matter to most it seemed at the time, but it mattered to wynn.

The rest was loss of trust built on repeated denials of there being a problem.

I entered this thread only because the Chair made a statement to the coroner that the are now doing all that is reasonably practical for safety .

They are not. Not even close.