He said a further review will be commissioned and undertaken by a 'senior legal figure' to 'look more deeply at Ajax, and not just health and safety, to examine the cultural and process flaws that it has highlighted'. He said: 'We will leave no stone unturned to learn these lessons.'Ī defence chief accused of squandering billions of pounds on faulty tanks has received a £120,000 bonus on top of his £280,000 salary. 'From a cultural perspective, the Army did not believe it was potentially causing harm to people, especially from vibration, as it was tacitly expected that soldiers can and should endure such issues.'
It finds that a culture exists of not treating safety as equally important as cost and time in the acquisition process. 'The review finds that the failure was complex and systemic. The result was that personnel worked on a vehicle that had potential to cause harm. 'The review finds serious failings in the processes followed. Mr Quin said: 'This health and safety report has highlighted shortcomings that need to be addressed, not just in health and safety but more broadly. Officials intend to spend the remainder working with manufacturers General Dynamics (UK) to solve the problems.
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The MOD has blown £4billion of the £5.5billion budget for Ajax. Last night, Conservative former defence minister Mark Francois suggested the Russians 'must be wetting themselves laughing' about the issues surrounding Ajax.Īnother, Andrew Murrison, said the findings are 'truly shocking' and added: 'The Ajax programme wins the competition, from a very long list, as the poster boy of defence procurement disasters.' Labour branded it 'the biggest defence procurement failure of the past decade'. Jeremy Quin told MPs he was 'horrified' by the report but still hopes it will become a world-leading battle asset. Seventeen soldiers remain under specialist care for hearing issues caused by the high-tech armoured vehicle which is the centrepiece to the Army's future strategy for warfighting. 'The Review saw no evidence of engineering solutions being installed during the period soldiers were exposed to potentially excessive noise and vibration in Ajax vehicles.'
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Both stated the longer-term action should be a 'design upgrade to reduce vibration' which would have been the responsibility of GDUK. 'This guidance was renewed in April 2019. 'It advised of high levels of vibration on early Ajax platforms, with long-term exposure potentially giving rise to Hand Arm Vibration (HAV) and Whole Body Vibration (WBV).
The report said: 'The first formal safety notice from within MOD was in December 2018 as a result of service personnel crew motion sickness reported in GDUK trials.