Events
Upcoming
Aerial firefighting webinars
Two 90-minute webinars: Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 July 2021
0730-0900 AEST
SMS Workshop Oct-Nov 2021
Safeskies conference September 2022
Aerial firefighting: meeting future challenges safely
Safeskies Australia is pleased to present, in partnership with RMIT University, two 90-minute webinars focusing on ‘Aerial firefighting: managing future challenges safely’.
In the first webinar on 20 July, a panel of industry experts from state aviation firefighting bodies will examine operational factors during the 2019-20 fire season. Aviation human factors specialist and author, Dr Tony Kern, will also discuss aerial firefighting from a human performance perspective
The second webinar, on 21 July, will focus on aerial firefighting regulatory and safety considerations, with presentations from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, (Australia’s transport accident investigator) and their Canadian equivalent, the TSB, on firefighting accident investigations. A presenter from the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council will round off this webinar giving a national perspective on aerial firefighting.
History
Past Events
Speakers
Over the years, Safeskies has brought numerous well-known aviation personnel to Australia, including the first keynote speaker, John J Nance. Nance, a pilot, is a leader and a pioneer in both aviation and medical safety and quality, and for almost 20 years has been a familiar face to North American television audiences as the aviation analyst for ABC World News and Good Morning America, and for appearances on the crash investigation series, Mayday.
Other distinguished speakers have included: space pioneer Dr Bill Gaubatz (Delta-Clipper space project); two chiefs of the RAAF; the NTSB Board Chairman, Mark Rosenker; former Chairman, CAA UK, Sir Roy McNulty; Director of the Air Navigation Bureau (ICAO) Ms Nancy Graham; and most recently, in 2019, Secretary-General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr Fang Liu.
Themes and topics
Safeskies has focused from time to time on a range of themes, including ‘Setting the right aviation safety culture’; ‘Safety in the globalised economy’; Learning the lessons of the past’; ‘Making safety management systems work’; and ‘Training and change’. Conference topics include a broad range of aviation activities, civil and military: flight operations, engineering and maintenance, ground handling, training, air traffic management, safety management systems and organisational culture, across sectors ranging from airlines and charter to recreational aviation, emergency services and the growing unmanned sector.
