Director, Public Transport Safety

The Director, Public Transport Safety (the Safety Director) was the independent Government agency responsible for rail and bus safety in the State of Victoria, Australia, between 1 August 2006 and 30 June 2010. The position was created as a statutory office by statute in early 2006 and was the State's first independent public transport safety position. The office was superseded by the position of the Director, Transport Safety which commenced operation on 1 July 2010. The former Safety Director, Public Transport Safety, Alan Osborne, was directly appointed to the new office.^[1]

The office of the Director, Public Transport Safety commenced operation on 1 August 2006, initially within the Department of Infrastructure. It later formed part of the Department of Transport until the office was abolished in mid July 2010. The Safety Director was one of three dedicated transport safety offices in Victoria during this period, the others being the Director of Marine Safety and the Chief Investigator, Public Transport and Marine Safety Investigations.

The Director, Public Transport Safety was responsible for regulation and compliance activities in the public transport sector with oversight of the rail and bus sectors. The Director of Marine Safety, on the other hand, had oversight of the safety performance of the commercial shipping and recreational boating sectors. The Chief Investigator had responsibility for no blame or just culture investigations and inquiries in those areas. The Director, Public Transport Safety traded under the name Public Transport Safety Victoria until the office was abolished in mid-2010.