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ASRS doesn't grant immunity to certificate actions or fines when an accident is involved. (Most deviations do not involve accidents, of course.)

GP was (presumably) comparing the situation of legal liability or discipline to the case of a medical practitioner self-reporting a mistake.



Yes, that is correct. I was a bit imprecise in my langauge but was referring to something like a case where a nurse is about to accidentally deliver a lethal misdose of medicine but then catches and rectifies the mistake before causing any harm. In healthcare, there is a strong incentive not to report that potential error whereas the ASRS system incentivizes reporting these kinds of "pre-accidents".




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