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applying reason Firefighters being repositioned on a bushfire ground by helicopter should not be classified as ‘passengers’ (charter operation) but as ‘permitted occupants’ (aerial work). (Grahame Hutchison)
Classifying operations
A fundamental building block of regulatory reform continues to plague CASA efforts to improve regulations – and without resolution of the classification of operations policy regulatory reform is doomed.
One would have thought that all those years ago when we commenced regulatory reform that the basic decision about how operations would be classified would have been first out of the blocks. It certainly hasn’t been for lack of industry effort.
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