It is now more than a year since the Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) program kicked off in September 2010. It has steadily gained momentum, with additional BARS member organizations (BMOs) and aircraft operators (AOs) regularly joining the program.
BARS auditor training has taken place in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the trained auditors providing services to these accredited audit companies: Aviation Compliance Solutions (Australia), ARGUS PROS (U.S.), Asset Aviation International (Australia), AvLaw (Australia), Litson & Associates (South Africa), Morten Beyer & Agnew (U.S.) and Wake QA (U.K.). The first annual repeat audit was conducted in September.
When aircraft operators register for a BARS audit, they select an accredited audit company to carry out the audit, which is conducted by two auditors over two days. Each auditor has had extensive prior audit experience and has undergone specialist training leading to accred…
