About the BARS Program
The Global Safety Program for Contracted Aviation Operations.
Who’s it for?
The Basic Aviation Risk Standard is a comprehensive contracted aviation safety program to assist you with the management of aviation risk for your people and equipment.
Customers of Contracted Aviation Services
BARS Member Organizations
BARS Member Organizations include mining and resource sector corporations, energy companies, government flight operations departments, insurance companies, and humanitarian organizations which are frequently using contracted aviation services.
By requiring their service providers to be BARS registered, they make sure to only hire the safest available aircraft operators. This significantly reduces the aviation-related risks for people, equipment and investment while at the same time reducing insurance premiums and protecting reputation.
Also, BARS Members benefit from gaining insights into BARS registered operators’ safety records, enabling them to monitor, analyze and assess the risks associated with their organization’s aviation activities.
Providers of Contracted Aviation Services
Aircraft and RPAS Operators
Aircraft and RPAS operators performing services under a contract often need to meet specific requirements set by their customers. This in turn necessitates a form of oversight and assurance. The Flight Safety Foundation’s (FSF) Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program was developed to streamline and simplify this assurance process for both contracting parties, maintaining the highest level of aviation safety whilst saving time and effort.
Today, a BARS registration has become a basic requirement for large parts of contracted operations in various sectors. Before it became the leading industry standard, some operators were seeing up to 15 audit visits each year across their various customers!
Now, one BARS audit a year satisfies the aviation safety audit requirements of all BARS Member Organizations. Being a BARS registered aircraft operator thus significantly reduces the audit burden while lifting operational safety to a higher level.
Our four components
The BAR Standards
Our risk-based aviation safety standards go beyond regulatory requirements and provide a worldwide basis for safe operations of contracted aviation services.
Five different standards for various operations and environments are available today.
Audit Program
Our robust audits make sure that aircraft, helicopter, and RPAS operators comply with the BAR Standard, which results in a high level of safety assurance.
A single audit is accepted by all BARS Members. This lets operators tap on a market of more than 40 different contracting companies, including 8 of the top 10 global mining companies.
Operators can choose between various scopes of audits suitable for different types of operations from the simple provision of small capacity passenger flights through to complex and specialist aerial work activities.
Aviation Safety Training
BARS trainings for auditors and operational personnel are tailored to the needs of contracted aviation operations and include the following:
Managing Contracted Aviation Risk
Auditor Accreditation Course
Helicopter External Load Operation for Ground Personnel
Building Personal Resilience Program
Global Data Analysis Program
The BARS Program Office captures and analyzes global aviation safety data. BARS Member Organizations and operators benefit from increased risk awareness and emergency information.
Every operator in the program automatically adds to the gathering of de-identified accident/incident and audit data. Results of the data analysis are returned to the industry in form of safety recommendations and improvements.
The connection with other International Audit programs
The BARS Program requirements supplement, but do not replace, existing national and international regulations. It is based on proven aviation safety principles, tailored to the needs of the resources and allied sectors. The Program uses a risk-based model framed around the actual threats to aviation operations and links these to associated controls, recovery and mitigation measures, as opposed to the prescriptive format previously used by the industry.
The BARS Program is connected to other international safety oversight programs. It fulfills increasing requirements by ICAO and regulatory authorities for an industry standard and a robust audit program dedicated to the contracted aviation service sector. In the same way IATA instituted the IOSA Program for the airline sector and IBAC developed the IS-BAO Program for the business/corporate sector, the BARS Program serves the diverse contracted aviation sector.
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