Course catalog

The in-company presentations include supervised practical auditing throughout the airport operational environment as an integral part of the training process, and provides participants with the opportunity to plan, undertake and report audits in their own airport working environment. This has been found to be a particularly powerful and beneficial approach to auditor training, providing the organization with a much more customized training event and the opportunity to debate internal auditing issues and improve current audit practices.

Based on the standard public “Auditing in an Airport Environment” course, this 5 day version includes supervised practical auditing throughout the airport operational environment as an integral part of the training process, and provides participants with the opportunity to plan, undertake and report audits in their own airport working environment. This has been found to be a particularly powerful and beneficial approach to auditor training, providing the organization with a much more customized training event and the opportunity to debate internal auditing issues and improve current audit practices.

The course recognizes and responds to the unique airport environment where there are several different regulators concerned with their own specific requirements (Aviation Safety, Occupational Health & Safety, Security, Environmental Pollution etc.) and the importance of a well managed internal audit process that provides adequate assurance of compliance to senior management.

Please Note: Practical auditing in the airport operational environment will require the client to make the necessary logistical arrangements. This course is for In-company presentation only and requires suitable training and catering facilities to be provided by the client together with access to airside operational areas for the practical auditing activities.

This course can be customized to client's specific needs, however, in general, the following topics will be addressed:

Background to auditing in the context of regulations
The Aerodrome Manual as an audit base
Fundamental principles of auditing
Pro-active auditing as an integral part of the overall management function
Relative responsibilities of those managing and undertaking audits together with those subject to auditing activity who will need to consider and implement effective corrective actions
Development of internal audit programmes (covering Fire & Rescue, ATM, Ground Operations, Passenger services etc.
The use of cross auditing throughout the airport environment by multi disciplined teams of auditors drawn from various specialist departments
Objective based auditing & reporting methods
Audit planning - development of audit check lists
Best practice audit conduct
Investigative auditing skills and techniques
Factual reporting of audit findings
Supervised practical auditing in a working airport environment - a specific beneficial feature of this course.
Discussions concerning internal audit related issues.
Audit reports & records
Psychological aspects of auditing
Auditor competency and development issues
Effective corrective action, audit follow up and close out mechanisms
The role of the senior management team in steering the audit process and ensuring adequate response to audit findings
Interactive trainer led discussions on auditing problems & solutions
Etc. etc.