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Subject:FW: technical publications at QANTAS From:"Conlon, Penelope" <pconlon -at- positron -dot- qc -dot- ca> To:wongword -at- ozemail -dot- com -dot- au, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 17 May 2000 09:00:46 -0400
> Irene writes of her posting of the newsflash about the CASA investigation
> of QANTAS airlines' quality assurance department and technical
> publications division:
>
>
> MY ANSWER:
> Communicators all
>
> I thought that it was interesting that a safety organisation would think
> it
> important enough to audit a tchnical publications dept. It says to me that
> tech pubs depts:
> * do matter by safety authorities
> * will be investigated.
> And here is a documented example of this.
>
> I'm sorry that I have wasted your time.
>
>
> I definitely got the point of your post - it wasn't a waste of time. It's
> very important to remember that a company's technical manuals and
> publications can be held legally accountable in a negligence
> investigation.
>
> Penny
> Technical Communcations
> Positron Public Safety Systems Inc.
> Montreal, Canada
>
