Safety Management System (SMS)
Introduction
Participants will obtain basic knowledge and skills for promoting, implementing a safety management system.
Objectives
The course will assist the participants to develop abilities to:
- Identify the key concepts of ICAO approach to SMS
- Identify how SMS are being effectively applied in service providers
- Explain the needs for and benefits of SMS
- Outline the philosophy of safety management
- Get management’s and the workforce’s support and involvement a ‘safety case’ of an SMS
- Identify the key personnel in SMS implementation and their roles
- Describe the basic elements of a safety management system
- Apply a SMS gap analysis process (compare what we have with what we should have)
- Apply principles of hazard identification and risk management
- Develop and run safety committees and action groups
- Take into account human and organizational factors in SMS Implementation
- Promote a positive safety culture
- Develop training and awareness strategies
Who Sould Attend
- Aerodrome infrastructure and maintenance Staff
- Aerodrome quality and compliance managers
- Airfield Technicians working on maintenance of airfield pavements on Civil Airports
- Airline staff
- Airport managers
- Airport supervisors
- Aviation Authority Personnel
- Engineering staff with responsibility for airfield maintenance
- Ground operations managers
- Managers of civil aviation authorities
- Operational staff
Course Content
- Module 00 - Course Introduction
- Module 01: Safety Management Fundamentals
- Module 02: SMS Structure and Regulatory Requirements
- Module 03: Safety Risk Management
- Module 04: Safety Assurance
- Module 05: Responsibilities within SMS
Prerequisite
- All lines management (Managers including CEO),
- operation personnel (pilots, cabin and engineer, air traffic controllers and airport technical personnel ) to obtain basic knowledge and skills for promoting, implementing a safety management system.
- And who wish to obtain an understanding of the implementation of SMS and their role in this process