Inquiries & Recommendations

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ensure that other company pilots properly record flight times in aircraft documents and their pilot logbooks.

Ensure that all employees who carry out safety-critical duties within the operations area receive formal training in fatigue awareness and management with priority being given to shift workers. Such courses should also be made available to staff members’ families and be completed by the end of 2004.

Develop and introduce a checksheet for use by train controllers when dealing with disabled trains, to include such detail as: - the exact metrage of the disabled train and how it was established - the length of the disabled train - the recognised points between which it was disabled - the end from which relief is to come - the actions taken to protect the disabled train - confirmation that the intended recovery action was discussed with the locomotive engineers of the disabled train and the relief train

Ensure that licensed rail siding holders have an approved operating plan that includes appropriate training and procedures to minimise damage to safety critical wagon components.

Require the Airways Corporation to desist from giving clearances by visual separation where only on pilot has the other aircraft in sight, and the "following" aircraft is not behind the lateral axis of the other aircraft.

That it include in the proposed Commercial White Water Rafting Code of Practice: A requirement for raft operators to show passengers an audio-visual summary of the demands of the rafting experience before they embark on the trip,...

The requirement for TCOs to confirm track locations geographically be widened to include track maintenance staff and others requiring track access.

Formalise the draft guidelines for protection at pedestrian level crossings and include the need for the use of a risk assessment technique to ensure appropriate protection is provided for new pedestrian crossing installations based on physical characteristics and usage and taking into account best international practice and industry experience.

Consider whether the potential merits of standardising the existing fleet of agricultural aircraft outweigh the short-term disadvantages especially where aircraft of the same type have levers which operate in different senses.

Install suitable weather, tide and swell monitoring equipment to better forecast adverse conditions. For such a system to be effective, it should be monitored and the information gathered, disseminated to the relevant persons.

Conduct an independent review of the jet boat activity each commercial jet boat operator in New Zealand is offering, to measure the type of activity and the manner in which it is conducted against the benchmark of identified risk. For any operations carrying more than the identified level of risk, either take the necessary action to reduce the risk level, or allow the operation to continue but require the operator to give passengers an appropriate warning of the high risk factor, before they commit to embarking on the trip.

On 27 May 2021 the Commission recommended that the Director of Civil Aviation promote education awareness of the benefit of aircraft pilots and occupants wearing appropriate helmets when practicable and when operational conditions indicate a potential benefit.