Originally Posted by
jakessalvage
Believe it or not outcome based legislation is intended to allow organisations to develop systems and processes to operate effectively in manner that demonstrates safety standards are upheld, even if the method you do this is not prescribed by the legislation. The inability of CASA staff with bipolar views on compliance to grasp outcome based legislation is a root cause of the plethora of regulations that are contrary to the intent of the philosophy.
CASA have no knowledge of - nor experience dealing with - outcome-based legislation. While the world commenced drafting outcome-based legislation 20 years ago, CASA still continue to draft overly onerous prescriptive legislation.
I think Glen's problem is far simpler: an incompetent officer at CASA has stuffed up, the organisation is too embarrassed to back down and will fight tooth and claw to bury the issue/s.