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TRAINING COURSE

Aviation Security Management (Advanced)

Introduction

This course provides advanced training on the current security and terrorist threats facing the international civil aviation sector. It provides a comprehensive appraisal of security issues that affect daily airport and airline operations, and consider practical strategies, techniques, and solutions for managing risks in a dynamic operational context. These include a detailed evaluation of security management systems (SeMS) and how to build, monitor and measure a security culture within an aviation organisation.

This training is set at an advanced level and is intended to cover all aspects of aviation security from a management and senior management perspective. It will include hot topics such as terrorism, modern slavery/human trafficking, cybersecurity and information security.

Managers and Senior Managers working in an aviation environment, whether with an airside or landside role, will highly benefit from this course. 

Course Content

At the end of this course learners should be able to:

  • Evaluate current and emerging security threats to the aviation sector and formulate effective countermeasures that align with international laws
  • Monitor, maintain and improve aviation security systems by designing, implementing and reviewing aviation security management systems (SeMS)
  • Coordinate, lead and assess action in the event of a major breach of aviation security
  • Examine personal practice to ensure compliance with security procedures
  • Allocate security resources and evaluate outcomes
  • Identify the implications and extent of human factors in aviation security and devise strategies to solve security vulnerabilities

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you should have:

  • At the end of this course learners should be able to:

    • Evaluate current and emerging security threats to the aviation sector and formulate effective countermeasures that align with international laws
    • Monitor, maintain and improve aviation security systems by designing, implementing and reviewing aviation security management systems (SeMS)
    • Coordinate, lead and assess action in the event of a major breach of aviation security
    • Examine personal practice to ensure compliance with security procedures
    • Allocate security resources and evaluate outcomes
    • Identify the implications and extent of human factors in aviation security and devise strategies to solve security vulnerabilities

Who should take this course

Leaders and managers with strategic responsibility for airport operations, including those working for airlines, airline security managers, airport operators, civil aviation authorities and law enforcement agencies. Supervisors and managers who are working, or are soon to work, in the aviation sector.

Pre-requisites

Essential:

Participants are kindly requested to bring a laptop to the course to access course material which will only be provided in electronic format.