Earlier this year, Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program Office in Melbourne, Australia, announced that the state government of Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) had become a Tier 1 BARS Member Organization. Subsequently, Lisa Frye, manager of the DELWP Aviation Services Unit, which is responsible for planning, procuring and developing aviation capability for fire and emergency management in Victoria, talked with AeroSafety World about the benefits of BARS. Her following comments have been edited for length and clarity: