Process, process standards and in this particular case "fault tree analysis". Responsibility and responsible judgement are independent of the particular set of processes chosen, used, standard. When the judgement became, "Was the process followed?"' -- responsibility was defeated, annihilated. Better that the judgement must be along the lines of: "Is this safe, is this change safer? Will this work?"
There are questions that are process-inward, self-referential about the set process followed -- these must be distinquished from questions that are external to the process, driven in from, answering to hard reality, rather then to a construct of process and practise.
Private enterprise is used to asking, to answering such outward-directed questions -- "Is this something the customer will buy?", " Is this something that wll break and be returned, or worse, cause us to be sued?" Such questions are independent of any internal process used by an organization. They are responsible, they encourage responsibility, they breed a responsible mindset.
Then, to such orgnaizations when questions about safety get asked, when they arise, it is the natural flow to answer them responsibly -- to answer what reality asks, rather than to filter and divert through a internal construct of artificial process.
A Government bureaucracy is immune to lawsuits, has little or no requirment to sell to a customer -- that breeds a culture where all questions are framed to set process -- not reality -- but some artificial construct that comes to replace reality.
There was no cross-reference; "Voter Registration" was not in the book at all.
For the very reasons you cite, self-centricity.
Yesterday, our mayor gave his state of the city speech, talking about how it is prepared; about which, I did some recon and found that the local government has indeed taken steps to preserve itself and is quite happy with itself.
Never mind that, when a truck topples on the local interstate, it may take up to 6 hours to clear the road. Never mind that nobody is watching the airports' outside the terminals.
Instead, there is a smug determination by city hall, to control people; and mostly "do not cause a panic."
I am sure that a large proportion of city employees will survive and live well to retirement.
Never mind that nobody, and I mean nobody, is watching the store from the outside; there is absolutely no reconnaisance around the perimeter.
The main airport is a comical representation of the government's "preparation." Any attempt by terrorists to pass over or through the fence would be unopposed and unreported up until the control tower hears foreign accents from the departing flight(s).
The "experts" are all focused on the lineup of passengers; the Maginot Line-up. While Somalian taxi cab drivers' cabs are NEVER inspected and drive right up to the entrance doors to the terminal ... while you park 300 feet (at least) away.