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Su_Spence in contravention of CASA/ATSB MoU?? 

Reference from 'Closing the Safety Loop' thread:

Coroner distrust and ATSB disconnect with investigation AO-2018-078 -   

On a final note, which I believe is definitely related, has anyone else checked out the bizarre, totally disconnected safety issue addressed to CASA, that was subsequently escalated to a very rare Safety Recommendation??

Regulatory management of repeat safety findings

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s acquittal process for repeat safety findings was not effective in ensuring that all previous findings of a similar nature were also appropriately assessed prior to the current and all associated safety findings being acquitted.

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Safety recommendation
Action number: AO-2018-078-SR-01
Action organisation: Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Date: 20 December 2021
Action status: Released

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau recommends that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority amend its acquittal process for repeat safety findings to ensure it is effective in ensuring that all previous findings of a similar nature are also appropriately assessed prior to the current and all associated safety findings being acquitted.

Hmm...anyone else understand that gobbledygook -   

Response by Civil Aviation Safety Authority

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority did not provide a response concerning its intention to address this safety issue.

If I was the CASA Regional Manager, supposedly tasked with responding to that bollocks SR, I wouldn't  be providing a response either?? - FDS!    

Hmm...the non-response to this un-intelligible SR may be understandable to the average punter but according to the current CASA/ATSB MoU it is just not cricket?? -

ATSB Safety recommendations

10.3 The ATSB will consult with CASA should any safety issues be identified that
affect CASA, and before making any formal recommendations for safety action
by CASA.
10.4 CASA will respond to any formal safety recommendations issued, in accordance
with section 25A of the TSI Act. Where consideration and implementation of
the recommendation may be protracted, CASA will provide the ATSB with
updates on its progress at least every 3 months from the date when the
recommendation was first issued, or otherwise as frequently as the parties
agree.
10.5 CASA acknowledges that the ATSB may publish some, or all, of CASA’s response
to a safety issue or recommendation.

Hmm...so we are rapidly approaching 9 months since the SR was 1st issued (20 December 2021), yet it would appear that CASA is simply not bothering to respond. Are we reverting to the bad old days (post Lockhart River) when the relationship between the regulator and investigator was untenable, with CASA constantly standing up the bureau when it came to responding to SRs addressed to the regulator??

Refer: https://auntypru.com/wp-content/uploads/...opin_2.pdf

The decline of the “Safety Recommendation”

Mr Dolan: “There are two things there and I will go to the question of recommendations
before I get to the specifics of your question. The ATSB at the point where it became
independent of the Department of Infrastructure and Transport also got a shift in its powers
in relation to the making of recommendations which raised the ante with recommendations
and their significance. There is a legal requirement to respond to each of the
recommendations we make. In recognition of that we set up the system of
identifying safety issues that said there needs to be a critical or a
significant safety issue before we will explicitly use that power to make a
recommendation and require a response, and we would generally limits
recommendations to those sorts of things. What you are talking about we
would in our normal framework, given what you said about likelihood and
consequence, deal with as a safety issue without going to recommendation.
That is the context: it is still there but your question remains.”

Opinion : The following data compares ATSB v NTSB Safety Recommendations over a ten year period (2000-2010). This data highlights that Mr Dolan has used the above philosophy in regards to Safety Recommendations to significant affect:..

Put the Beaker waffle in context with the issuance of a SR for safety issue AO-2018-078, that has subsequently (to this point in time) being totally ignored by the CASA YMML regional office?? Err...'let's do the timewarp again' - 

MTF...P2