ICAO & EASA Safety Management System Requirements - Introduction

The topics covered include:

• ICAO SMS SARPS, ANNEX 19 and EASA Management Systems: Regulatory framework
• State Safety Programmes (SSP and Safety Management Systems (SMS)
• Components of a Safety Management System
• Accident causation and root cause analysis. Worldwide Aviation Safety performance
• Operational Errors and Violations: Assessing individual errors.
• Active and latent failures to include: Organizational influences, system influences, and operator influences: Assessing organisational failures. The direct and indirect organisational cost.
• The safety process.
• Hazard Identification and Analysis – Practical case studies on Bow-Tie analysis
• Hazard Logs / Risk Registers
• Risk management and Risk Assessment - Business practices
• Effective Barriers – Controls and Risk Mitigation processes
• Management of Change (MOC) – Case studies
• Emergency Response Planning (ERP): A practical approach
• Safety Performance Targets (SPT), Alert Levels and Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs): The performance-based SMS
• Training and Communication – Initial, Recurrent, On-the-job-training (OJT)
• EASA Management System requirements (PART ARO/ORO)
• Developing and managing an effective safety culture – Measurement of Safety Culture level
• Implementation: What applies to ICAO members, what applies to EASA/ECAC members
• SMS Implementation: What applies to EASA/ECAC complex organisations and what applies to EASA/ECAC non-complex organisations?
• Agreed Safety Performance and Acceptable Level of Safety (ALoS) Performance.
• Measuring the ALoS performance: The Effective SMS.
• Safety Management Systems Implementation: a practical guide, based on ICAO SMS Manual 3rd Edition, 2013
• SMS Evaluation tools / Audit your SMS effectiveness

Linked Courses: Human Factors/CRM in Aviation

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• identify the required content for a compliant ICAO SMS and/or EASA Management System;
• have the knowledge and materials to begin the development and implementation of an ICAO-compliant Safety Management System (SMS) and/or EASA Management System (SM), as an organized approach to managing safety. This includes the organizational structure, accountability, policies, and procedures;
• assume the responsibility of coordinating and supervising the safety efforts of your organization related to the applicable position;
• use the resources provided to start the development, implementation, and management of an effective Safety Management System;
• understand the process, principles and business practices for the SMS/SM implementation;
• demonstrate cognitive skills by undertaking a problem analysis and exercising reasonable judgment in assessing SMS technical requirements;
• operate practical skills by selecting and using appropriate methods for developing an SMS/SM;
• demonstrate professional and transferable skills by working to deadlines both individually (with initiative and enterprise) and within teams, showing evidence of SMS/SM implementation skills; and
• be an effective resource to the management team in the safety system.

This course is a comprehensive, interactive, application-based program specifically designed to help organizations develop an effective ICAO SMS/EASA SM.

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• identify the required content for a compliant ICAO SMS and/or EASA Management System;
• have the knowledge and materials to begin the development and implementation of an ICAO-compliant Safety Management System (SMS) and/or EASA Management System (SM), as an organized approach to managing safety. This includes the organizational structure, accountability, policies, and procedures;
• assume the responsibility of coordinating and supervising the safety efforts of your organization related to the applicable position;
• use the resources provided to start the development, implementation, and management of an effective Safety Management System;
• understand the process, principles and business practices for the SMS/SM implementation;
• demonstrate cognitive skills by undertaking a problem analysis and exercising reasonable judgment in assessing SMS technical requirements;
• operate practical skills by selecting and using appropriate methods for developing an SMS/SM;
• demonstrate professional and transferable skills by working to deadlines both individually (with initiative and enterprise) and within teams, showing evidence of SMS/SM implementation skills; and
• be an effective resource to the management team in the safety system.

This course is a comprehensive, interactive, application-based program specifically designed to help organizations develop an effective ICAO SMS/EASA SM.

An interest in achieving increased knowledge in the understanding and implementation of ICAO SMS/EASA SM in the different working environments.