2007
A Few Words
About Us
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Dates
30 Oct -2 November 2007
Venue
Hyatt Hotel, Canberra
Conference dinner and Sir Reginald Ansett Memorial Lecture: Great Hall, Parliament House
Supporters
Airservices Australia – Airbus Industrie, France – Australian Aviation – Australian Parachute Federation Inc – Australian and International Pilots Association – Australian Sports Aviation Confederation – Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) – Brindabella Airlines – Canberra Airport Group – Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) – Cobham Flight Operations & Services – Department of Defence – Department of Transport and Regional Services -(DOTRS) – Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN) – Pilatus Aircraft – QANTAS Airways Limited – QBE Aviation – Regional Aviation Association of Australia – Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia – Shell Australia Limited – THALES Australia – Gliding Federation of Australia
Keynote speaker
Sir Rod Eddington
Former CEO of British Airways: Sir Reginald Ansett Memorial Lecture

Topics
Conference theme: ‘Making safety management systems work’
Day 1 began with the Hon. Mark Vaile, Minister for Transport and Regional Services, officially opening the conference. Dr Rob Lee was the next speaker, on ‘Aviation safety management systems (SMS): challenges and solutions’, followed by the Aviation Policy Group—the heads of the Department of Transport and Regional Services; the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Airservices Australia and Air Force, who gave their perspectives of SMS in their respective domains.
The NTSB chairman, Mark Rosenker, outlined the Board’s ‘Top 10 aviation safety issues’, and day 1 closed with the ATSB’s Kym Bills providing the Bureau’s take on SMS.
Day 2 continued the SMS focus with a presentation from the UK CAA on the European approach to integrated SMS, SMS in Qantas, in GA training, in BHP Billiton operations and air traffic management. The conference closed with a look at SMS from the safety culture part of the equation.
For more detail, see the full 2007 conference program.