Reading through the
directions for the regulatory process, the December 2007 process calls for:
Outcome-based safety regulations
The principle behind outcome-based regulations is to allow for an outcome to be
reached via multiple or various pathways, while maintaining an acceptable level of safety. The outcome-based approach contrasts with the traditional prescriptive approach to regulation, where specific process and procedures are set as requirements.
CASA is implementing an outcome-based regulatory framework comprising:
• Outcome-based Regulations;
• Technical Standards;
• Acceptable Means of Compliance; and
• Guidance Material.
Outcome-based Regulations involve the implementation of relatively simple and brief
regulations that express high-level safety outcomes.
Technical Standards include requirements that, for the purpose of clarity and effective administration, are best contained outside the regulations.
Acceptable Means of Compliance set out acceptable methods of demonstrating
compliance with outcome-based regulations. Authorisation by the regulator is assured if an industry applicant follows the relevant Acceptable Means of Compliance. The applicant retains the ability to propose alternatives for consideration should they so wish, provided those alternatives would achieve the required safety outcome.
But, this is not what is happening at all:
We now have a completely useless, complicated and injurious set of regs, that are not [even after 25 - odd years] complete.