In February, I had another opportunity to visit Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) program office in Melbourne, Australia, and again I came away impressed with what I saw and heard. Like FSF headquarters staff in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., the Melbourne office, under the leadership of BARS Managing Director David Anderson, accomplishes a lot with the available resources.
For anyone unfamiliar with BARS, it is a standard developed in conjunction with the mining and mineral resources industry to establish a common global aviation safety assessment and audit protocol. Use of the standard has spread to other organizations that use aviation to support their operations, including government and humanitarian aid agencies. According to David, the BARS revision cycle has begun again. So his office, and the BARS Technical Advisory Committee, which comprises representatives of the BARS Member Organizations, are now working to produce Version 6 of the standard, wh…
