Part 92 Post Implementation Review
Background to the changes that Part 92 introduced
- Shippers to undertake approved training courses in dangerous goods handling conducted by industry instructors in accordance with recent changes to ICAO requirements;
- Cabin Crew DG training courses to be approved by the Authority;
- Additional operators to maintain a dangerous goods manual in accordance with changes by ICAO;
- Employees to have ability to gain necessary (DG) qualifications on a single course.
- All training valid for 2 years;
- A period of grace for employees to also apply to enable employees to re-qualify in (DG) training qualifications;
- Automatic exemptions for certain operators from the requirement for (DG) training and from the regulations for certain types of operations;
- Automatic exemptions for groups such as emergency and police services to carry certain equipment;
- Certain statutory exemptions i.e. Display parachute jumpers; carriage of DG in helicopter underslung load, non-class B cargo compartments etc. Standing exemptions for DG carried by police aircraft and on aircraft engaged in emergency service operations.
Some of the things being proposed
- All operator's employees courses to be CASA approved - this will pick up ramp, customer check-in and security screening staff courses. Most of these employees already complete an approved course. There have been a number of examples where un-approved courses are not being kept up to date.
- Failure of exam in a DG recertification course will preclude the employee from continuing to accept dangerous goods.
- Production of an Advisory Circular on Permissions to Carry and Consign Dangerous Goods (Section 23 of the Civil Aviation Act)
- Reviewing and refining CAAPs 262 and 35-4 (Oxygen systems for live aquatic animals)
- Articulating requirements for correspondence and internet based courses in AC 92-1 (training)
- Articulating an application package for a new DG instructor
- Clarifying that DG Instructors under training are required to hold an instructing approval.
- Reviewing AC 92-2 (DG Manuals) and including material which will provide a clearer examples on certain sample topics (i.e. Operator approved DG for passengers)
- A requirement that persons who open packages for inspection, including regulatory authorities and Customs Officers, return the package to a proper condition for carriage (in alignment with the ICAO Technical Instructions)
- Hidden or misdeclared dangerous goods being classed as a dangerous goods incident (another alignment with ICAO)
- The power for certain CASA inspectors to open packages to ensure that dangerous goods are packed in accordance with the ICAO TIs.
Send your comments on CASR Part 92
If you would like to comment on CASR part 92 - how it currently operates, or how you believe it can be improved - Please use the CASR Part 92 comment form.
Further information
You should look at the current version of CASR Part 92 and associated advisory circulars.