Earlier this year, Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program Office in Melbourne, Australia, announced that the state government of Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) had become a Tier 1 BARS Member Organization. Subsequently, Lisa Frye, manager of the DELWP Aviation Services Unit, which is responsible for planning, procuring and developing aviation capability for fire and emergency management in Victoria, talked with AeroSafety World about the benefits of BARS. Her following comments have been edited for length and clarity:
How vital is BARS for improving aviation safety standards for service organizations in Australia and around the world?
Having a documented aviation risk standard means that when we say something about safety, we all know what that looks like, and everyone is on the same page. This is important to us because we don’t own or fly the aircraft. We contract th…
