Let's put the Forsyth (ASSR) review into lay-mans terms.
One could liken the Forsythe review to a third party audit of Australian aviation safety oversight. The auditor (Forsythe) has audited the operator (alphabet soup organisations). The auditor has found upward of 60 non conformances. What should the operator do? Well firstly respond in the agreed timeframe with root cause being identified by the operator, then initial fixes put in place, followed by a long term fix. Then of course later on at some point the operator would review the fixes to ensure mitigation has worked.
So what does our 'operator' do? Ignores the audit report for a long long period of time, doesn't bother to accept the auditors findings and do anything about it, and then ducks, weaves, obsfucates and basically allows all of the identified safety findings to just sit there, which in turn elevates the unmitigated risks to an extremely dangerous level.
Now unfortunately if we were talking about a real AOC or COA operation and someone like Wodger was involved then a safety alert followed by a show cause would be imminent, all done on a Friday at 16:59 PM.
Get my point? The auditors findings are serious, the safety findings remain unmitigated and as a result there is a real danger to industry and the travelling public, right now. Where to from here? Well it is time that ICAO or perhaps the FAA came in and did a follow up audit of the rogue 'operator' and took things to the next level. Heaven help us the IOS have tried to encourage change, the Senators have been trying for years to force change and Forsythe and Co have had a crack at it as well. Each time only to be ignored and a regulatory middle finger raised in defiance.
An unholy mess indeed, with unacceptable, unmitigated, already identified safety risk to industry and the public, with absolutely nothing being done about it. Tick tock Miniscule? Hmmm, I think so.
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One could liken the Forsythe review to a third party audit of Australian aviation safety oversight. The auditor (Forsythe) has audited the operator (alphabet soup organisations). The auditor has found upward of 60 non conformances. What should the operator do? Well firstly respond in the agreed timeframe with root cause being identified by the operator, then initial fixes put in place, followed by a long term fix. Then of course later on at some point the operator would review the fixes to ensure mitigation has worked.
So what does our 'operator' do? Ignores the audit report for a long long period of time, doesn't bother to accept the auditors findings and do anything about it, and then ducks, weaves, obsfucates and basically allows all of the identified safety findings to just sit there, which in turn elevates the unmitigated risks to an extremely dangerous level.
Now unfortunately if we were talking about a real AOC or COA operation and someone like Wodger was involved then a safety alert followed by a show cause would be imminent, all done on a Friday at 16:59 PM.
Get my point? The auditors findings are serious, the safety findings remain unmitigated and as a result there is a real danger to industry and the travelling public, right now. Where to from here? Well it is time that ICAO or perhaps the FAA came in and did a follow up audit of the rogue 'operator' and took things to the next level. Heaven help us the IOS have tried to encourage change, the Senators have been trying for years to force change and Forsythe and Co have had a crack at it as well. Each time only to be ignored and a regulatory middle finger raised in defiance.
An unholy mess indeed, with unacceptable, unmitigated, already identified safety risk to industry and the public, with absolutely nothing being done about it. Tick tock Miniscule? Hmmm, I think so.
TICK TOCK