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Safety management systems (SMS) in practice

The ICAO framework, the EASA, FAA and GCAA rules, risk matrices, indicators and alert levels, reporting, just culture and the management of change

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Practitioner · 50 minutes · 24 narrated pages

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Describe the ICAO SMS framework of four components and twelve elements and explain how it links with the State safety programme.
  • ✓ Apply the European, United States and UAE management system rules, including ORO.GEN.200, 145.A.200, ADR.OR.D.005, 14 CFR Part 5 and its 2024 extension, and GCAA CAR Part X, to an organisation's scope and deadlines.
  • ✓ Identify hazards with reactive, proactive and predictive methods, and assess, mitigate and accept risk with a five-by-five matrix and the ALARP principle.
  • ✓ Define safety performance indicators and targets, and calculate alert levels from the mean and standard deviation of past data.
  • ✓ Run occurrence reporting under Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 and apply a just-culture decision process fairly and consistently.
  • ✓ Manage change with a hazard log and integrate safety management with compliance monitoring, using the lessons of the West Wind Aviation investigation.

Course content

Session 1 · What a safety management system is

1.1

  1. From compliance to performance · free preview
  2. Four components, twelve elements
  3. The State safety programme and the regulator
  4. From the investigation file: West Wind Aviation at Fond-du-Lac
Session 2 · Policy, accountability and the rules

1.2

  1. Safety policy and the accountable executive
  2. Europe and the UAE: one management system
  3. The United States: Part 5 and its 2024 extension
  4. Worked example: planning an SMS implementation
Session 3 · Hazards and risk

1.3

  1. Finding hazards: reactive, proactive and predictive
  2. The risk matrix and tolerability
  3. Mitigation, ALARP and accepting risk
  4. Worked example: rating and reducing a risk
Session 4 · Safety assurance and performance indicators

1.4

  1. Monitoring safety performance
  2. Indicators, targets and alert levels
  3. Assessment, audit and continuous improvement
  4. Worked example: setting an alert level
Session 5 · Reporting, investigation and just culture

1.5

  1. Occurrence reporting
  2. Just culture
  3. Investigating to learn
  4. Worked example: applying the just-culture decision tree
Session 6 · Change, promotion and integration

1.6

  1. Managing change
  2. Safety promotion and safety culture
  3. Integrating SMS with quality
  4. Worked example: a hazard log for outsourcing

Who this course is for

Upskill courses are for professional development and are not approved by any aviation authority. Learner Terms

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