This course is designed to instruct safety and other managers in an aviation organization
Description
The Course is designed to instruct safety and other managers in an aviation organization on how to implement and run an ICAO compliant Safety Management System (SMS).
- Describe the 4 Components and the 12 Elements of the ICAO SMS Framework, including the processes and activities associated with each Element.
- Become familiar with characteristics of an effective and “just” safety culture and learn techniques for how to evaluate your organization’s safety culture
- Describe the purpose of having a Safety Reporting Program
- Use the Safety Risk Management process and understand how it differs from a Flight Risk Assessment
- Describe what Change Management is concerned with according to SMS
- Become familiar with Safety Performance Indicators (SPI) and how they relate to the three strategies of SMS
- Describe how to implement an Internal Auditing Program (IAP) in your organization and where to find appropriate checklists.
- Become familiar with a phased approach to SMS implementation
- Describe safety investigation techniques and Root Cause Analysis
- Pass a written exam.
Objectives
At completion of the training, the student will be able to:
- Describe the difference between Safety Management and SMS.
- State the current edition number of the ICAO Safety Management Manual
- Name the Four Components (Pillars) and 12 Elements of the SMS Framework.
- State the basic criteria for saying that your organization has an implemented SMS
- Identify which of these areas is the most recent focus of Safety Management: Technology, Human Factors, Organizational Management or the Total System Management?
- Describe “Practical Drift”
- Describe “Latent Conditions”
- Describe characteristics of an effective and “just” safety culture
- Describe characteristics of an ineffective and “unjust” safety culture
- Name and describe the three strategies of Safety Management
- Describe the relationship between a Safety Objectives, SPIs, SPTs and Safety Triggers
- Describe leading versus lagging safety performance indicators (SPIs)
- Name 10 things that should be in your SMS Manual
- Explain why hazard and “near-miss” reporting is so important
- Describe the concept of ALARP.
- State and describe the ICAO risk management process (5-Step Process is okay substitute)
- State the two questions that you must ask to “assess” a risk
- Describe the “Hierarchy of Controls” and how it applies to corrective actions
- State two purposes of an Internal Auditing Program
- State what Change Management is concerned with according to SMS.
- Describe what Safety Training is concerned with according to SMS
- Describe what is involved in “Safety Communication” according to SMS.
- Define a “Root Cause” and its limitations
- Describe two methods of Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- State where RCA fits in the 5-step risk management process
- Complete an open book exam on these topics at the end of the course.
Classroom 5 Days
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