You can check to see if a CRSQA surgeon is an AAO member here.

http://www.aao.org/aao/member/state/directory.cfm

Next time a CRSQA surgeon does something less than safe in the operating suite (for example... a RECENT decentered ablation performed by a CRSQA surgeon whose initials are Kerry Assil... in one eye of a patient - bad enough to cause some serious coma and vision problems) you may consider lobbying the AAO for some relief. CRSQA surgeon Dr. Kerry Assil also overcorected this patient - she has accomodative spasms now.

How can CRSQA support a claim that they are 'safer'? Why would the AAO tolerate such a claim?

We'll believe it when we see the data.