Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Business

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1) State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or your business in which you are working? If so, how? The Administrative agency I picked is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which controls the regulation I will be discussing below; Air carrier contract maintenance requirements. I developed interest in this regulation because of the fact that if deals with ways to save lives and properties. Being a foreigner in the united states, a lot of my family members are either present here in the US or back home in Africa and as such a lot of travelling is involved on aircrafts of which anything pertaining to aircraft safety always gets my attention. I would also say even though I am not directly involved in the operation of the aircrafts, regulations affecting it however affects me indirectly because it results in making proper steps to ensure that as a passenger I get a safe flight to my destination whenever I travel on air. 2) Describe the proposal/ change. The proposed regulation is titled “Air carrier contract maintenance requirements” and it is one that deals with maintenance of not just commercial aircrafts but also all aircrafts with about ten or more passengers excluding the pilot and according to the FAA guidelines. Before this proposed regulation, aircraft carriers were never required to develop guidelines for contractors hired to maintain their aircrafts and as such, there has been noted deficiencies and lack of consistency in the services performed by these contractors. This in turn led to loss of lives in 1996 and measures are been taken now because there is believed to be a continuous rise in the way companies give it out contracts in regards to maintenance of their aircrafts, because of the contractors

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