1. Safety Management Fundamentals
   • Introduction — defining safety
   • Changing approach to safety management — from prescriptive to performance-based safety
   • Just Culture — error and violation management
   • Safety management methods
2. SSP and SMS Requirements
   • SSP requirements — components and elements of SSP
   • SMS requirements — components and elements of SMS
3. Safety Risk Management
   • Hazard definition
   • Sources of hazard information
   • Safety risk analysis — probability, severity, tolerability
   • Risk mitigation/control

1. Safety Performance Monitoring
   • Acceptable Level of Safety Performance (ALoSP)
   • Safety objectives
   • Safety performance indicators, targets and alert levels
2. SMS Implementation
   • Gap Analysis
   • SMS implementation planning

Target Group

• Accountable Managers
• Top level managers such as Chief Financial Officers, Commercial Directors, Chief Operations Officers, etc.
• Other managers interested in understanding SMS — Reservations Managers, Marketing Managers, etc.

Prerequisites

• Experience in aviation management.
• Computer skills — working knowledge of office productivity software. Access to, and basic use of, data processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent).

Instructional Methods

• Classroom lectures
• Course notes
• Practical exercises

Completion Standards

• 100% class attendance.
• Successful completion of exercises.