Recommendation

CASA acknowledges the intent of this recommendation and advises
that to the Authority has taken significant steps to ensure that
CASA audit teams have expertise in all relevant areas, including
human factors and management processes.



As the ATSB is aware, CASA, through audits of operators management
systems, aims to assess how effectively operators are discharging
their safety responsibilities. As part of CASA is safety systems
approach, multidisciplinary teams are used to allow a wider
approach to the audit task, thus ensuring that expertise in human
factors and management processes is available during the conduct of
the audit. Moreover, this process ensures that a level of
consistency of audit findings is reached due to the wider
availability of cross functional views and approaches.



This approach is supported through the development of targeted
training courses, such as CASA's Human Factors for the Safety
Regulator.



This course is designed to assist CASA is Flying Operations
Inspectors, Air Worthiness Inspectors, Air Worthiness Engineers,
Aerodrome Inspectors, Dangerous Goods Inspectors and Cabin Safety
Specialists with the subject of human factors as a discipline and
to explore its application in the development and maintenance of
aviation safety and in the investigation of subsequent safety
breaches.



CASA considers that the introduction of multidisciplinary audit
teams, in conjunction with the development of the safety systems
approach and targeted training, satisfies the requirements of this
recommendation.