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Under our MOU, the organisations can conduct joint investigations and participate in each other’s investigations.

Workforce challenges are also expected, with shortages of key personnel in some sectors and increased movement of operational staff between employers. While there is no agreement for an ATSB-funded role, the ATSB committed to a policy to make itself available for major accidents where resources are made available.

The ATSB Annual Report 2016–17 outlines performance against the outcome and program structure in the Infrastructure and Regional Development Portfolio Budget Statements 2016–17.

The investigation highlighted the challenges of landing in darkness and poor weather conditions when landing on wide runways that lack centreline lighting. Their contribution to safety is highly valued and, with their support, I intend to ensure they are empowered and enabled to make this contribution well into the future. Included in these releases is the publication Safe work on track across Australia: Analysis of incident data, 2009–2014 (The derailment of train 3MP5 at Rawlinna, Western Australia in 2016 (With Queensland coming on board within the national rail safety system, the ATSB commenced eight investigations into rail occurrences in the state over the 2017–18 year. From the ATSB’s perspective, we also expect to see opportunities to broaden our jurisdiction across transport modes.The ATSB must be able to maintain its status as a world leader, implementing best practice in transport safety investigation in this changing environment.

Known as the ‘crash comic’, we have further preserved this history by making the 150 editions of the digest (spanning 1953 to 1991) available online through the ATSB’s During the year, we completed 32 complex aviation safety investigations and 28 short investigations.In addition to the aviation accidents previously highlighted, other significant aviation investigation reports released in 2018–19 include a runway excursion at Darwin Airport involving a Boeing 737 aircraft in December 2016 (The Darwin runway excursion resulted from factors that included a small increase in crosswind that led to a significant deviation of the aircraft from the runway centreline at a critical time during the final approach.

The Australian Government Review of National Road Safety Governance is examining how to bring down the number of road deaths and serious injuries. Page 1 of 1 Total records: 20 Safety publications; Pub. In 2020, a Diploma in Transport Safety Investigation will be offered before evolving into a Master’s program. The ATSB will continue to work with the appropriate Commonwealth and state agencies to clarify its role.On 3 October 2017, the ATSB published its final report into its work coordinating the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (With the finalisation of the ATSB’s work, responsibility for MH370 matters was handed over to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) in the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities.The ATSB will continue to perform its primary function of ‘improving transport safety’ in an operating environment of continuing growth and change in the aviation, rail and marine transport industries. Consistent with the Minister’s I am positive about the agency and the role we will play in improving transport safety going forward.

This year we held our inaugural FlySafe and RailSafe safety forums, while our SeaSafe marine safety forum will be held in 2019–20.

The collision with water involving a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver aircraft (VH-NOO) on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales on New Year’s Eve drew substantial media attention (The ATSB completed 13 complex rail safety investigations and three short investigations. FILTER RESULTS BROWSE ALL. The published investigations included a loss of propulsion event on the passenger cruise ship The ATSB continues to have collisions between trading ships and small vessels reported.

The ANAO found the ATSB has established key elements of an overall framework to promote efficient investigation processes. In 2018–19, the ATSB continued to make a significant contribution to transport safety in Australia, thanks to the release of several substantial and high profile investigation reports which contained valuable safety learnings for the aviation, rail and marine transport modes. The investment made over the last year will see continued improvement towards the ATSB being able to meet its deliverable targets.Over the year, we were pleased to bring on board Executive Director Transport Safety, Nat Nagy. The training should provide flight crews with the knowledge to correctly configure the aircraft’s automatic flight systems and manual handling skills to respond adequately to in-flight upsets.The ATSB completed seven complex rail safety investigations and two short investigations in 2018–19. Search.

Conscious of the need to remember those who can inspire us to innovate, our studio is named after Macarthur Job OAM. This year I had the honour of being asked by the Royal Aeronautical Society to present the Lawrence Hargrave Memorial Lecture in Melbourne.In May, I attended the International Transportation Safety Association meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.

To counter misinformation and provide transparency, we have become more proactive in engaging early with media when there is a transport safety occurrence. A common contributing factor that was present in the investigation into a collision between the container ship With the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) taking full responsibility for domestic commercial vessels from 1 July 2018, the ATSB invested in seeking to understand the role it can play in the new national maritime safety system.

Two in particular have the potential to result in jurisdictional changes for the ATSB if there are any recommendations resulting in policy change.