What a Week!

Monday morning a team arrived to conduct a safety consultation. This audit-like review of the MMS Aviation facility and procedures was scheduled months ago and would take all week. The consultation team was put together by Mission Safety International (MSI) and included representatives of School of Mission Aviation Technology and Moody Aviation.

Cary, MSI Research & Development Coordinator, conducts my four-hour interview.

Thirty-one interviews (some four-hour and some two-hour) were completed by Wednesday afternoon. The real work for the consultation team then began. They had to collate and condense the interview information and write a report. The first draft of the report was shared with the MMS Senior Management Team for comment, then the report was put into its final thirteen page form.

Steve has just handed me the "official" safety consultation report.

The safety consultation report was shared with the whole MMS team at 3:00 PM today. After going over the report, Steve, MSI Vice President of Field Operations, presented me with the official report signed by each member of the consultation team. The report contains commendations about things we are doing safely as well as observations and recommendations of those things we can improve. All in all, it's a pretty valuable document, worth a full week's work.