Professional Certificate Course
Delivery: Virtual/Classroom
Duration: 2 days (4 hours/day)
The SMS for Executive Managers workshop is designed to provide airport senior management and executives with the necessary knowledge and skills to plan, develop, and implement a Safety Management System (SMS) and ensure on-going compliance with the ICAO safety Standards and Recommended Practices in accordance with local civil aviation regulations.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explain the four phases of SMS
- Develop a safety policy
- Differentiate accountability vs responsibility
- Describe the safety risk management process
- Implement and support safety assurance and promotion initiatives
- Support a safety just culture at the airport
- Apply leadership concepts as a fundamental requirement of SMS
- Demonstrate understanding of SMS through exercises and case studies
Target Audience
- Airport senior managers and executives
- Airport operations managers
- Airport managers with reporting staff
Course Content
- Basic safety concepts
- Regulatory requirements
- Leadership Fundamentals
- Safety policy and objectives
- SMS and safety culture
- Safety risk management
- Safety assurance
- Safety promotion
- Change management
- SMS practices and recommendations
- Group exercises and case studies
Other Safety Courses
*AMPAP and ASP electives