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Is it always right to be right?

Is it always right to be right?. Alan Ross A&K Ross Associates Pty Ltd Kangaroo Ground Victoria Australia. QR. Is it always right to be right?. Where should the line be drawn with respect to overly prescriptive and ‘nanny’ style regulation?. Co-regulation.

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Is it always right to be right?

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  1. Is it always right to be right? Alan Ross A&K Ross Associates Pty Ltd Kangaroo Ground Victoria Australia QR

  2. Is it always right to be right? Where should the line be drawn with respect to overly prescriptive and ‘nanny’ style regulation?

  3. Co-regulation The Regulator works with the industry on an equal footing, to seek continuous improvement in safety and a step change in safety culture

  4. Trends & practices - safety regulation Drawing the line with respect to overly prescriptive, ‘nanny’ like safety regulation

  5. Rail Safety Regulation The need for regulation is directly proportional to the maturity of the industry

  6. Rail Safety Regulation In other words ‘You get the level of safety regulation that you deserve’

  7. The ‘Nanny’ State ‘Nanny’ - the term originally referred to a nursemaid, often with a tyrannical approach

  8. The ‘Nanny’ State Invented by Margaret Thatcher

  9. Boiling Frog Syndrome How the Nanny State can creep up on you - likewise ‘nanny’ regulation!

  10. Boiling Frog Syndrome ‘Boiling Frog Syndrome’ occurs everywhere!

  11. Boiling Frog Syndrome It is true that you get the level of Regulation that you deserve!

  12. Poachers and Gamekeepers There is a spectrum of ‘styles’ in safety regulation, from ‘self-regulation’ at one end to an overly prescriptive approach at the other end

  13. Prescriptive Regulation Will not achieve either long-term improvements in performance or a step-change in safety culture

  14. The ‘knee-jerk’ reaction You are only as good as your last disaster!

  15. The role of the Regulator? Policeman? To ensure that the industry complies with legislative requirements? Or something else?

  16. The problem with prescriptive regulation In a constantly changing World, whatever is prescribed today will be obsolete tomorrow

  17. Fear, blame and shame One serious accident is enough to disrupt any approach to regulation

  18. Is it always right to be right? Rule 1 - the Regulator is always right Rule 2 - if in doubt refer to Rule 1

  19. Is self-regulation possible In a perfect World there would be no need for a Safety Regulator

  20. Does self regulation exist any more? Yes, and in a high risk activity.

  21. The Media - the ‘other’ Regulator The media assumes the role of Regulator whenever things go wrong!

  22. Conclusions ‘Nanny’ style Regulation is costly and counter productive, but the solution lies with the industry AKRA Aviation - new budget airline - competition for Branson

  23. Some things never change

  24. Thank you ‘Man is a battlefield, a dark cellar in which a well-bred spinster is locked in combat with a sex-crazed monkey, the struggle refereed by a nervous bank clerk’ Civilised man - Bannister, D.

  25. Questions? “Death by (to) Powerpoint” Apki Lambi Umar Ke Liye! Which way is the pub?

  26. Now there’s a name for a pub!

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