{"id":54569,"date":"2015-03-02T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=da47c039ad3ea1a26b4b54b4cc6d6b9b"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:44:12","slug":"news-story-formation-of-defence-safety-authority-dsa-what-this-means-for-the-maa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54569","title":{"rendered":"News story: Formation of Defence Safety Authority (DSA): what this means for the MAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A new organisation, the Defence Safety Authority (<abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr>), will be launched on 01 April 2015. The <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr> will bring together the Defence Safety and Environment Authority (<abbr title=\"Defence Safety and Environment Authority\">DSEA<\/abbr>), Military Aviation Authority (<abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr>) and Defence Fire Safety Regulator (<abbr title=\"Defence Fire Safety Regulator\">DFSR<\/abbr>) to form a single common managed organisation under the leadership of a 3 star Director General (<abbr title=\"Director General\">DG<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr>), Air Marshal Garwood, who will be directly accountable to the Secretary of State (<abbr title=\"Secretary of State\">SofS<\/abbr>). The <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr> will be subject to a period of development and this will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will achieve Initial Operating Capability (<abbr title=\"Initial Operating Capability\">IOC<\/abbr>) on 01 April 2015 and the second phase will achieve Full Operating Capability (<abbr title=\"Full Operating Capability\">FOC<\/abbr>) on 01 April 2016. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr>\u2019s responsibility for regulating all aspects of Air Safety across Defence remains with no change to identity, brand and logo, however, the transition of the organization under the <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr> will bring some limited changes. Every effort is being made to maintain stability for (and minimise impact on) the regulated community at <abbr title=\"Initial Operating Capability\">IOC<\/abbr>.   <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at <abbr title=\"Initial Operating Capability\">IOC<\/abbr> the <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr> regulator outputs will remain unchanged<\/li>\n<li>the <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr> will be headed by a newly formed post of Director <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr> (<abbr title=\"Director Military Aviation Authority\">D MAA<\/abbr>). Air Vice Marshal Paul Atherton will assume the role on 01 April 2015<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"Director General\">DG<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr> will be the Convening Authority for Aviation Service Inquiries (<abbr title=\"Service Inquiries\">SIs<\/abbr>) and, subject to formal agreement, will become the primary Convening Authority for all safety related accidents from 01 April 2015     <\/li>\n<li>a new <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr> charter which encompasses all Defence safety regulators will replace the <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr> charter<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr> role and multiuser email addresses will change from 01 April 2015, in most cases existing email addresses will be prefixed by <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr> (i.e. <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr>-XXXXX@mod.uk to become <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr>&#8211;<abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr>-XXXXX@mod.uk) <\/li>\n<li>the Military Air Accident Investigation Branch (<abbr title=\"Military Air Accident Investigation Branch\">MilAAIB<\/abbr>) and the Land Accident Investigation Team (<abbr title=\"Land Accident Investigation Team\">LAIT<\/abbr>) will come under the functional authority and line management of <abbr title=\"Director General\">DG<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Defence Safety Authority\">DSA<\/abbr>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr> is committed to ensuring that any changes do not adversely impact on the regulatory output of the organisation, whilst simultaneously exploring opportunities to develop and improve Air Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found in our <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_935059\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/408204\/20150122-DSA_Transition_Key_Facts.pdf\">Key facts flyer<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">74.3KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">1 page<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/408388\/MAA_RN_2015_03_D-OPS.pdf\"><abbr title=\"Military Aviation Authority\">MAA<\/abbr>\/RN\/2015\/03(D OPS)<\/a> and queries should be emailed to <a href=\"mailto:maa-enquiriesmailbox@mod.uk\">maa-enquiriesmailbox@mod.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new organisation, the Defence Safety Authority (DSA), will be launched on 01 April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}