Tombstone mentality
Two principals were considered by the Federal Aviation Administration, the Precautionary Principle (EUR-Lex) and the Tombstone Mentality Principle (Dombroff). Each principle has advantages and disadvantages for laws elaboration. The precautionary principle recommends adopting a regulation or law before it happens representing that characteristic an advantage to avoid potential deaths or injured people. The potential negative effect of the precautionary principle is the excess of regulations and laws that could difficult the development of the activity, in his case the aviation industry. The Tombstone Mentality adopts a regulation or law once there is precedent events that caused injured or death people. This Tombstone Mentality principle is applied to the majority of safety laws in other industries (Ward Jr).
Another method to complement the previous principles is the benchmarking principle (Info-Tech), that is, to adopt the best regulations from similar organizations, in this case, the European Aviation Safety Agency, International Civil Aviation Organization and Civil Aviation Authority. This method is widely used by the other organizations using the FAA as the model because the most active aviation industry is the United States of America aviation industry, the industry with more activity and traffic has more experiences to create rules and laws for the aviation industry.
Cited Works
Dombroff, Mark. UAS/FAA The “Tombstone Mentality”: Back to the Future. Web. 05 de August de 2015. 15 de January de 2017.
EUR-Lex. The precautionary principle. 2016. Web. 15 de January de 2017.
Info-Tech. Five Principles of Benchmarking: A Guide for IT Management. 2016. Web. 15 de January de 2017.
New York Times. A 'Tombstone Mentality'? 15 de December de 1994. Web. 15 de January de 2017.
Ward Jr, Ken. Mining for truth: Safety laws written in blood. 19 de February de 2006. Web. 15 de January de 2017.
