The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) will seek to improve its efficiency by becoming “more data-driven,” Chief Commissioner/CEO Greg Hood says in the ATSB’s recently released Annual Report 2015-2016. The report covers the year ended June 30. 2016.
Hood, who became ATSB chief commissioner/CEO in July, said in his outlook for 2016-2017 that he while he is proud to lead a “world-class and lean” transport safety investigative agency, “I am keen to reshape how we commit our limited resources to improve safety for the travelling public.”
He said that ATSB has a rich national information dataset of all safety-related occurrences in aviation, as well accidents and significant safety occurrences in the marine and rail sectors, that already is used to identify safety trends in all three sectors. “[B]ut I would like to do so more actively. In doing so, we will be able to more selectively allocate our limited resources to investigating those accidents and incidents that h…
