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Government makes 30% savings thru harmonising aviation regulations -

Introduction: Via AMROBA thread.

Why U NO speak English?

The latest KC & AMROBA newsletter (like the above meme) offering revolves around the common theme of why it is we have voluminous, convoluted, poorly worded & impossible to understand regulations and the detrimental 'knock on' effects this has to industry:

..Correctly worded regulations and standards are clear and concise, i.e. understandable. Sadly, what has been produced over the last decade has raised more confusion than clarity and one of the main reasons is the failure to adopt and use international terminology and definitions. Instead, we have poorly worded regulations and standards very unique to Australia...

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However, CASA converted this international standard (specialised services) into the need for "specialist". Qualified persons are not "specialists". e.g. CAR30 "qualified persons".

Regulations, Manual of Standards and advisory material impose this "uniquely" CASA approach on our industry because international terminology was purposely ignored...

...CASA is now involved with industrial matters. What was the safety case used to apply a unique and potentially costly "job classifications" on industry? How come CASA have become the experts in determining what maintenance tasks, which qualified persons have been performing safely for decades, are now to be treated as "specialist" tasks? CASA admits it does not have the expertise, this provision confirms it.

This use of improper terminology has already seen industrial issues raised in Parliament about the need for "specialists" that did not exist before the creation of CASRs and demonstrates the mindset of those instructing regulation drafters.

Australian industries have been multi-skilling to improve efficiency, productivity and innovation by nurturing an employee’s talent so the employee feels they are being used to improve the performance of the workplace. The adoption of "specialist" is a retrograde step that is damaging the industrial benefits that have been attained over the last couple of decades by governments and unions working to upskill the workforce...

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Another misunderstanding: Instead of adopting the ICAO standards that states a maintenance release is a "certification" in a document. The CASA applied standard requires a certificate to be issued instead of a certification to be made in records.

The only conclusion that industry can come to is that those in CASA do not, or did not, understand the ramifications of poorly worded regulations and standards especially when only half the foreign system is adopted.

 
Reference part 4 latest AMROBA newsletter: Volume 13 Issue 10 (October 1016)

Come on Wingnut you know KC speaks in plain English... Get rid of the witch doctor, employ Mike Smith ASAP to reform CASA; adopt either of the NZed or US plain English (easy to read & understand) regulations, then stand back and watch the accolades roll in for yourself, Murky and the minister, as the industry flourishes and contributes greatly to 'jobs, growth' and the Aussie GDP -

In a parallel Can'tberra suburb... 

Memo to Murky, Comardy & 4D Chester - Industry suggests at the earliest possible convenience (i.e. Yesterday) that you and your minions request that either Minister Payne or Minister Pyne (don't care which - ) arrange a briefing with DoD Mandarins & minions to explain the many advantages of international harmony on aviation regulations...

Also read & absorb the following courtesy of Binger from the Oz..

Defence overhaul saves millions
12:00amMITCHELL BINGEMANN

New Defence regulations represent the biggest change in aviation safety at the ­organisation in more than 20 years.

Regulations to bring Defence in line with Europe, saves millions

The Australian
12:00AM November 4, 2016 

The Defence Force is set to save millions of dollars in unnecessary costs for it and its suppliers after implementing regulations that fall in line with European rules, representing the biggest change in aviation safety at the ­organisation in more than 20 years.

The regulations, known as the Defence Aviation Safety Regu­lations, replace the tailor-made set of rules for Australian Defence aviation that were put in place in the 1990s in response to a spate of fatal aircraft accidents.

“Those regulations have served us pretty well and protected us from those high accident rates of the past but they were unique to Defence in Australia and designed around our internal processes from 20 years ago,” said the director-general of the new Defence Aviation Safety Authority, Air Commodore James Hood.

“As we have outsourced a lot of work to industry and try to source aircraft from other countries and exploit global supply chains, the regulations have not served us well.
“Not only that, by imposing very old internal processes on commercial entities, in many ways we have put additional overheads on them, which ends up costing us more.”

The new rules, which bring Australia in line with European regu­lations being implemented by about 30 other nations, are expected to reduce the cost of overheads for Defence and its suppliers by as much as 30 per cent.

“The old regulations and their strict rules meant overheads placed on our contracting partners were getting charged back to us. So it was costing everyone more money,” Mr Hood said.

He said the new regulations would deliver immediate benefits to the organisation and its partners, including cheaper access to global supply chain and maintenance operations.

Significantly, the new rules will also allow engineering and maintenance shops to blend their workforces, meaning there will no longer be a regulated requirement to have separate workforces that are restricted to work only on civilian or military aircraft.

“Our regulations were so restrictive that it was very hard to support or exploit global supply chains, but these new regulations mean organisations can exploit global supply chains at a much reduced costs,” Mr Hood said.

“Our regulations were so restrictive that it was very hard to support or exploit global supply chains, but these new regulations mean organisations can exploit global supply chains at a much reduced costs,”

“By bringing in these new regulations which line up with civilian regulations, companies will now be able to have one workforce that can work on both a civilian aircraft and a defence aircraft.

“Not only that, it means that as defence or civil aviation work waxes and wanes, they can balance that across their workforce instead of struggling in the past as they have.”

The regulations began in September and will roll out through Defence and defence industry until the end of 2018.

Mr Hood said there remained two big risks in implementing the new regulations.

“The first is the change of language and instruments that can be a little daunting. This means some people might misinterpret the intent of the regulations,” he said. “Then we get other people who think they understand the new regulations and run ahead too fast when they don’t actually understand them.”

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