Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 138.012

    A significant change , for an aerial work operator, means:

  (a)   a change in relation to any of the following:

  (i)   the location and operation of the operator's main operating bases, including the opening or closing of main operating bases;

  (ii)   the operator's key personnel;

  (iii)   a person authorised to carry out the responsibilities of any of the key personnel if the position holder is absent from the position or cannot carry out the responsibilities of the position;

  (iv)   the formal reporting lines for a managerial or operational position with safety functions and responsibilities that reports directly to any of the key personnel;

  (v)   the operator's process for making changes that relate to the safe conduct and management of the operator's aerial work operations;

  (vi)   the kinds of aerial work operations the operator is authorised to conduct under the operator's aerial work certificate;

  (vii)   the kind of operations involving a Class D external load conducted by the operator, including beginning to operate that kind of operation (but not including ceasing to conduct that kind of operation);

  (viii)   for an aerial work operator that is not required to have either a training and checking system under regulation   138.125 or a safety management system under regulation   138.140--the flight rules under which the operator conducts the operator's aerial work operations (but not including starting operations under the visual flight rules if operations were already conducted under the instrument flight rules); or

  (b)   any of the following changes in relation to the aircraft used in the operator's aerial work operations:

  (i)   the operator first starts to use an aircraft for which a pilot of the aircraft would need a type rating for the aircraft and no other aircraft is already used by the operator that requires the same type rating;

  (ii)   the operator first starts to use an aircraft that is in a different category of aircraft (within the meaning of Part   61) compared to the category of aircraft already used by the operator;

  (iii)   the operator first starts to use an aircraft that is a multi - engine aeroplane or a multi - engine rotorcraft; or

  (c)   a change in relation to any of the following that does not maintain or improve, or is not likely to maintain or improve, aviation safety:

  (i)   the plans, processes, procedures, programs and systems for the safe conduct and management of the operator's aerial work operations;

  (ii)   the qualifications, experience and responsibilities required by the operator for any of the operator's key personnel;

  (iii)   any other aeronautical or aviation safety related services provided to the operator by third parties;

  (iv)   any leasing or other arrangements for the supply of an aeroplane or rotorcraft used in the operator's aerial work operations; or

  (d)   a change required to be approved by CASA under these Regulations, other than a change that results in the reissue or replacement of an instrument previously issued by CASA in which the conditions or other substantive content of the instrument are unchanged.