Safety Reporting Officers
*The starting salary rate may be negotiated (within the salary range advertised) based on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.
Our Safety Reporting team is a highly regarded group of professionals dedicated to maintaining ATSB’s mandatory occurrence reporting process for aviation, marine and rail in accordance with the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003. While the majority of occurrence notifications relate to aviation, the ATSB is committed to improving the incident and accident reporting arrangements with both the rail and marine industries.
Safety Reporting Officers require intermediate to advanced information technology skills and experience and a keen interest in or knowledge of aviation, marine or rail industries to process these notifications. While not all reported occurrences are investigated, the details of each occurrence are retained within our database. These records must be accurate as they form Australia’s official aviation occurrence database, are a valuable resource for future investigations, and are available to the public. It is preferred the successful applicant has a good knowledge of or strong interest in the aviation, marine or rail industries.
Responsibilities:
- Responding to notifications of occurrences and maintaining accurate records in the ATSB’s occurrence database(s).
- Undertaking follow-up activities obtain or clarify information with operators and industry stakeholders via telephone and email.
- Processing of transport safety occurrence reports (in accordance with mandatory incident and accident reporting requirements*) includes applying a classification, occurrence categories and safety factors.
- Undertaking quality assurance activities to maintain a high standard of occurrence records.
- Preparing occurrence briefs for publication on ATSB’s website.
- Managing the ATSB’s accident and immediately reportable incident hotline during business hours on a rostered basis.
- Liaising with Australian and overseas industry stakeholders, the general public, and supporting internal investigative staff as required.
* Interested applicants should become familiar with the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 and supporting Regulations (particularly in relation to mandatory reporting requirements).
Details on how to apply for this position are detailed in the application kit, attached below.