I attended the annual Rail Safety conference for 2011 earlier in the year and one of the speakers was Group capt Alan Clements, the Director Defence Aviation Safety and Air Force Safety. His presentation was interesting in both where the ADO is going with their aviation safety management system as well as providing some historical perspective, and statistics.
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Planes and Trains
Posted in Aerospace Safety, Safety culture, Technology, tagged DDAAFS, RAAFSafe, Rail Safety 2011, safety culture, safety management system on 05/07/2011 | 1 Comment »
I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.what are the facts?
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