user certification - education and demonstrated competency
considering that a "New TRA" may have a scope which includes rocketry beyond commercial or 'EX' as practiced by the current TRA, we need to examine what role user certification should play.
is revision of NFPA 1127 to remove a user certification requirement desirable or feasible? Are there any other regulatory requirements for user certification outside of the NFPA?
do limits on member activities based on certification level have a bearing on insurance premiums? because of a perceived safety risk?
what about the probability of payout if the organization is self-insured? would it increase if users were not certified? is this based on statistical experience, or does such data not exist? If not, future experience provide sufficient data to uphold a re-evaluation of the question?
or was certification mandated because of some percieved advantage to a launches overall safety? Was this a subjective judgement or otherwise how what objective information was used to reach that conclusion? Has experience upheld that assessment?
if desireable, how might user certification be revised to address a wider scope of rocketry activities?
comments?
- iz