The Nimrod Review - Official Documents

CHAPTER 24 – NEW PERSONNEL STRATEGY
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Chapter 24: New Personnel Strategy
“Safety is delivered by people, not paper” (Andrew Macfarlane, Nuclear Regulator, 2008)
“It takes a whole community to ensure that we get [Operational Safety, Suitability and
Effectiveness].” (A Fleet Chief Engineer, US Air Force, 2008)
Chapter 24 makes Recommendations for a New Personnel Strategy.
Summary
1. People deliver Airworthiness.
2. There are currently weaknesses in the area of personnel in the MOD, namely:
(1) Undervaluing and dilution of engineers and engineering skills.
(2) Engineers are not required to have professional status.
(3) Decline in the ability of the MOD to act as an “intelligent customer”.
(4) Turf wars and inter-service rivalries for jobs and roles.
(5) Short term two-year postings.
(6) Constant re-naming of posts.
(7) ‘Double-hatting’ and ‘gapping’.
(8) Lack of trained Safety Engineers.
(9) Selfishness, rewards and promotion for ‘change’.
(10) Shortage of manpower and skills fade.
3. There should be a New Personnel Strategy to address each of these weaknesses.
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