Advanced SSP / SMS Course
Course content
Overview of the latest global SSP and SMS development
Evaluation and Acceptance of Service Providers’ SMS
- Understanding of a systems approach to SMS and recognition of the components of a system and how they interact and interface.
- Understanding the regulatory framework and its intent to ensure an organization meets CAD’s requirements for the initial SMS acceptance or full SMS acceptance.
- Continued oversight of SMS. Understanding of how an organization ensures compliance with regulatory requirements on an on-going basis.
- Interfacing SMS operations with contractors or third parties to manage safety related services or aspects of services that have direct operational implication to a service provider’s SMS.
- SMS oversight techniques and application of SMS Assessment Tools, and demonstration or exercises as appropriate.
- Overseas regulatory examples and experiences.
Compliance-based vs Performance-based Regulatory System.
- SMS and its relationship with performance-based oversight
- Data-driven surveillance plan and its application
- Overseas regulatory examples and experiences, including but not limited to examples of performance-based regulation (PBR) applications in ICAO, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), United Kingdom, and/or other major civil aviation authorities.
- Exercises to demonstrate applications PBR
Safety performance measurement &risk management
- Role of safety data and safety information in safety performance management. How organizational safety performance framework and indicators are developed and used in a management system.
- Understanding risk to evaluate issues or proposed changes and the impact on the organization and the aviation system; and to evaluate the need for safety risk controls.
- Sources of safety data. Mandatory vs voluntary safety reporting; reactive vs proactive safety data and safety information; and proactive vs predictive analysis.
- International practice on data taxonomy and ICAO accident/incident data reporting taxonomy (ADREP).
- Initial acceptance of Acceptable Level of Safety Performance (ALoSP) including Safety Indicators, Targets and Alerts and periodic review to ensure the ALoSP remain relevant.
- Statistical methods (e.g. moving average, rate, trend identification) used for reviewing appropriateness of ALoSP settings.
- Application of risk analysis tools (e.g. Bowtie) and/or introduction of safety case tools (e.g. Goal Structuring Notation). (Note : Any licences as required shall be arranged by the Contractor for training purposes.)
- Evaluate the effectiveness of root cause analysis (e.g. Fishbone) and the associated corrective action plan.
- Overseas regulatory examples and experiences.
Safety promotion
- Human factor and organizational culture
- Understanding of human performance and limitations and understanding of the organizational factors that may influence human factors.
- Understanding of the importance of open-mindedness to accept new ideas or different viewpoints including being able to recognize that a management system is proportionate to the size and complexity of the organization.
- Promotion of a positive safety culture.
- Understanding of the different types of cultures found in an organization and how they can affect the system performance.
- Teamwork in SSP/SMS. SSP/SMS risk assessment is often carried out as part of a team so there is a need to be able to work in a multi-disciplinary environment in a cooperative manner.
- Appreciation of the subjectivity of safety management and the need to establish objective evidence where possible.
- Relationship between safety culture and just culture.
- Safety data protection. Understanding sensitivity of confidential issues to prevent inadvertent disclosure of specific safety data or organizational data by the regulator.
- Overseas examples on safety culture survey or overseas experiences on promotion of a proactive reporting culture.
Scheduled dates
None, request by mail