Washington — Aiming to maintain tempo with rising applied sciences and cut back the time wanted to finish investigations, the National Transportation Safety Board has employed a document quantity of employees this 12 months.
Among that complete: a rising complement of investigators within the Office of Rail, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Investigations who had NTSB on observe to clear a backlog of almost 450 investigations by the tip of fiscal 12 months 2023 (Sept. 30).
The company introduced on Sept. 27 that it anticipated to have 433 staff by the tip of the fiscal 12 months – a 9.1% enhance over 4 years. That includes an virtually 50% bounce in rail, pipeline and unsafe supplies investigators.
Additionally, the Air Traffic Control Division inside NTSB’s Office of Aviation Safety is absolutely staffed for the primary time in seven years, per an company press launch, which notes that the “NTSB workforce had remained flat” because the mid-Nineties regardless of quite a few advances in transportation applied sciences.
“My vision for NTSB is an agency where everything we do – from our investigations to our advocacy to our internal processes and procedures – advances our critical safety mission,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy mentioned within the launch. “The first step was to right-size our agency’s workforce, which had been stagnant for decades, because it is our people who will ensure the NTSB is a ‘mission-first’ agency for years to come.”
