Excargodog

Bureaucrats have never been known for their willingness to stray even slightly outside of the box, and coming now from a generation where public schools have been known to have banned the playing of dodgeball because of fears it will ‘increase aggressiveness and lead to injury’, I can imagine it getting worse in the future.

What it would require, IMHO, is a process by which the individual would agree to subject themselves to the sort of scrutiny military flyers on the HRP/PRP/Nuclear Surety program routinely endure where their every medical encounter is monitored and their commanders/supervisors/coworkers are expected to inform and get them evaluated if they behave less than ‘normal’ and they are in fact temporarily removed from their duties on a no-fault basis if they are going through life stresses that may be too difficult for them to compartmentalise (divorce/serious illness or death of a loved one/etc).

That would also require at least HIMS levels of medical observation and followup and an assurance of HIPPA levels of confidentiality at all levels, including by coworkers and supervisors.

Unfortunately selling that program to ANYONE other than those who would otherwise lose their jobs without it would be real tough. It’s a perceived rusk (and certainly a PR risk) that the bureaucrats don’t believe they need. But such a program would have likely avoided the Germanwings disaster. It certainly wasn’t’ as If that pilot’s problems hadn’t been identified. They’d just never been reported to anyone empowered to do anything about the risk he posed.

Coukd such a program work? Sure. Will we ever see it in the civilian world? Doubtful.