Originally Posted by
Bend alot
How does one living in aviation in the Top End these days do a Risk Assessment (knowing the dangers of the Wet Season)?
Some company's require previous Wet Season experience as a mitigation point - so it is a real hazard not a perceived hazard.
- Northern Territory - The offence of industrial manslaughter came into effect in the NT on 1 February 2020. A PCBU or an officer of a PCBU commits industrial manslaughter if they intentionally engage in conduct which breaches a health and safety duty and causes the death of an individual to whom the health and safety duty was owed. The PCBU or officer must also be reckless or negligent about the conduct breaching the health and safety duty and causing the death of that individual. The maximum penalty is imprisonment for life for an individual and fines of $10.2 million for companies.
Excellent question. I can't speak for this operator but many operators are yet to catch up. The involved pilot's flying school had multiple very close calls with weather yet did little about it. Risk management was minimal and many of the instructors were happy to push the limits themselves. This culture in the formative period of his training did him no favours.