Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program was developed from the outset to standardize remote-operations risk mitigation within the natural resource sector (ASW, 3/10), which focuses on global onshore exploration and extraction of minerals, metals, oil and gas. Approaching 2014, this evolving audit program also extracts precious safety insights from aircraft operators’ shared data and influences other types of industries and flying, program veterans say.
“The BARS Program was designed by resource companies, in conjunction with the Foundation, to mitigate the risk of aviation activities undertaken in support of this sector,” said Greg Marshall, BARS managing director. “The BAR Standard was derived from an amalgam of different standards that were adopted by a variety of onshore and offshore resource-sector companies…
