AIR SAFETY GROUP: A BRIEF HISTORY

by John Rickard

This brief history puts into the public domain, as has not been done previously, the circumstances leading to the formation of the Air Safety Group in 1964. It continues by describing the Group's subsequent history emphasising its remit embracing almost every issue of safety which surfaced during the period under consideration. While some such items are touched upon in the main text, the reader is referred to the Group's website for fuller information, although some issues current at the time of the 45th anniversary in 2009 are discussed in an Appendix. Written by John Rickard, one of the Group's founder members, the account includes an overview of some of the other non-statutory organisations promoting safety. As an independent monitoring body, working with others when appropriate, the Group feels assured of a continuing role.

58 pages, Paperback

Published May 12, 2014

About the author

John David Rickard was an Australian historian who served as Professor of Australian Studies at Monash University from 1995 to 1998 and the visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University from 1997 to 1998. Rickard won the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 1977 for his book Class and Politics: New South Wales, Victoria and the Early Commonwealth, 1890‐1910.