Safety Management System Refresher

This course is compliant with EASA regulations and ICAO but is also suitable for operators complying with standards globally.

As an aviation professional you are required to update your Safety Management Systems (SMS) to the latest regulation updates on a regular basis. This course was developed to provide aviation professionals and managers with refreshed and updated knowledge and enable them to exchange lessons learned. The SMS evaluation tools and processes continue to grow, and as part of an organization's SMS review, this includes a greater emphasis on Human Behavior and Just Culture.

This course will cover what safety involves and whether the existing method of safety management system SMS actually improves safety. It will also address difficulties for frontline staff, and how both organizational and regulatory restrictions play a part in the job of safety through various scenarios and exercises. Participants will learn how to identify new types of hazards resulting from emerging factors, the impact of the increasing complexity of our world, and how to foster appropriate cultural changes to empower your organization’s continual improvement.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand what is a Safety Management System and why do we need one
• Understand the fundamentals of organizational safety and how to promote it
• Understand the most recent improvements in regulatory requirements for safety management
• Identify obstacles to your SMS to maintain successful and improving operations over time
• Establish criteria for managing change activities and determining the significance of change

• Safety Managers and professionals
• Operational managers who need an introduction to SMS or refresher
• Supervisors and operational managers
• Compliance Managers
• Auditors and Risk Assessors