Outsourcing important safety and maintenance operations to the lowest bidder
(See also Flying Cheap)
Who’s Fixing Your Plane
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See also :
Safety First? All Signs Point to No
NEIL GENZLINGER
NYT, January 17, 2011
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/arts/television/18frontline.html
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January 20th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Isn’t it wonderful:
1) to own the regulators?
2) to be sure that whatever you decide, regardless of the number of people you may die because of you, you will never personally suffer the consequences?
3) to know that no matter how bad you run your corporation, you’ll always be mega flush with money, perks and goodies?
Such is the wonderful life of a American CEO nowadays.
For the rest of us, it sucks more and more with each passing day.
January 20th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
I read something on a somewhat related note this morning – The Onset of Catabolic Collapse at the Archdruid Report (a blog on sustaining societies without relying on oil)
As societies expand and start to depend on complex infrastructure to support the daily activities of their inhabitants, though, it becomes harder and less popular to do this, and so the maintenance needs of the infrastructure and the rest of the society’s stuff gradually build up until they reach a level that can’t be covered by the resources on hand. [...]
The only reliable way to solve a crisis that’s caused by rising maintenance costs is to cut those costs, and the most effective way of cutting maintenance needs is to tip some fraction of the stuff that would otherwise have to be maintained into the nearest available dumpster.
January 20th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
A company that did a poor job of maintenance before will find and even cheaper way to do a poor job. A company that understands the role of maintenance towards improving performance will find a less expensive way to accomplish the same. They may both choose to outsource or insource. What bothers me is that I have no visibility to which company pursues the performance strategy.
January 20th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Meanwhile, on the ground and underground, another set of troubles the politicians just refuse to tackle:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/20/water.main.infrastructure/index.html
January 20th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Many of these issues like aircraft maintenance have gone far beyond the “business issue” category. They are now moral issues. We have people who are in positions of responsibility who are wilfully ignoring their duties and then rationalizing their actions (inactions) as “business decisions”.
This is utter bullshit and should be defined as such. These people are guilty of all the negative feasances (mal-,mis-,non-, etc.) as well as, in some or many cases, criminal behavior.