ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Australian Transport Safety Bureau

Okay, kiddo, so let me explain what the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is all about.

Imagine you are in a car with your family and they are driving you somewhere. You want them to make sure that they are driving safely and following all the rules to keep you and everyone else in the car safe. The same goes for when people travel by airplane, train, or boat.

The ATSB is like the grown-up version of you in the car, but for all kinds of transportation - planes, trains, boats, and more! Their job is to make sure that everything is safe and that everyone who uses those ways of transportation is protected.

They do this by looking into any accidents or problems that happen with transportation in Australia. Think of them like detectives who try to figure out why something went wrong and how it can be prevented from happening again.

This information helps people who work in the transportation industry to learn from these mistakes and create new rules or procedures to keep everyone safe.

So, in short, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau is a group of super smart people who make sure that transportation in Australia is safe and help to prevent accidents from happening again.