Active Safety Management

This Air Safety Management module is tailored for current and aspiring aviation professionals focused on Operational Safety Management. You will learn the critical importance of leadership and resource management in ensuring safety within an aviation company.

The module covers key aviation safety issues, equipping you to design and implement an effective Safety Management System (SMS) for your organization. Topics include risk management and enhancing aviation safety performance through a practical, integrated SMS approach, preparing you to lead safety initiatives successfully in the aviation industry.

Who is it for?

Aviation professionals intending to carry out operational safety management duties. The module will cover topics including managing risk and striving for aviation safety performance through a practical, integrated and effective Safety Management System.

Timetable

Module teaching usually begins at 9am and finishes at 5pm each day, with time for breaks. If there is any change to these timings, you will be informed before the start of the module.

The main objective of the module is to deliver deep understanding of key concepts and elements of an SMS

• It is deemed more important that you understand why certain elements are vital for a well-functioning SMS than to know current regulatory SMS references by heart.
• The philosophy in this module is that the main motivation for an SMS is safety delivery as opposed to mere compliance with SMS related regulations.

This module sets the overall SMS picture

• Components
• Implementation
• Regulatory requirements and the role of the aviation authority

Any safety management approach is strongly driven by an underlying concept of accident causation. Therefore, the module needs to introduce a model of safety / accident causation which lies under the adopted Safety Management concept.

• Evolution from “component failure” to “Swiss cheese” and to “Dekker’s Drift”

Data collection and analysis:

• FDM, Observation methods, reporting etc.
• FRMS to be covered as a subject. Ideally with real airline data.

You will be asked to submit a reflective journal following completion of the module to illustrate your learning. You will not receive a mark for the reflective journal.

Following successful completion of the module, you will receive a certificate of participation.

There is no prior knowledge to this CPD, other than a general awareness of the aviation industry practices – there is a pre-reading resource list that will help you prepare for the course.

Applicants are expected to have professional experience within the aviation industry.

English requirements

For those students whose first language is not English, the following qualification is also required:

• IELTS: 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in all four test components is preferable)

For information about the various English Language tests City accepts please see the English language requirements.

Indicitive:

• ICAO Doc 9859,   Safety Management Manual   (SMM)
• Just Culture – Sidney Dekker
• Managing the Risks   of Organisational Accidents – James Reason.