Australia Introduces Safety Regulation Reforms
Safety authority proposes a new approach after drawing flak in a government report.

Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) last week announced a set of regulatory reforms intended to streamline governing aviation through improved continuity in the areas of engineering, pilot licensing, flight training and operations, maintenance and fatigue risk management, as well as improving standards for navigation, sport aviation and aerial work. The agency released the reforms almost simultaneously with the publication of an aviation safety regulatory report called for by Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss after both the CASA and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) came under fire for taking an excessively adversarial approach with the industry.