Gary Prosser, Commissioner, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, discusses the work of the ATSB both from a personal and an institutional perspective:
I was honoured to have been appointed to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s Commission in 2019 to help support and oversight the strong maritime work of the nation’s transport safety investigator.
An independent, no-blame investigator plays a critical role in any nation’s transport industry, and I am proud to be able to bring my more than 40 years of experience in the maritime industry to help the ATSB ensure appropriate outcomes and improvements in maritime safety.
I have seen incident investigation evolve tremendously since my early days, with the ATSB now adopting a multimodal approach to investigation that sees investigators from a broad cross section of specialisations, who undertake specialised tertiary training, working on transport safety investigations across the three transport modes.
The results are world-class, independent no blame investigation reports that drive safety improvement in the maritime industry.
