The National Transportation Safety Board’s chairman Deborah Hersman and her fellow board members released the 2013 Most Wanted List of safety recommendations November 14 because, according to Hersman, “Transportation will be a big topic in the 113th Congress…We want to highlight our priorities and help assure safety has a seat at the table.” This year’s list includes an increased focus on improving airport surface safety, better detection of fires in all transportation modes and a continued look at the stubbornly st
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November 15, 2012 - 2:25pm
The NTSB released its annual “Most Wanted” list of safety improvements yesterday, with only one change from last year. Fatigue was removed and replaced with “preserving the integrity of transportation infrastructure.” NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said that changes to the list represent progress made, or acknowledge that there are other areas “ripe for change” in a given year. “We’re releasing the list now so it is available to policymakers at the state and federal levels, as well as industry groups, as they craft their priorities for 2013,” she explained.
October 1, 2012 - 3:33pm
The safety investigator’s role has changed significantly over the past 15 years and investigators cannot use 20th century techniques to investigate 21st century accidents, NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman told last month’s International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) seminar in Baltimore.
