Advanced Master in Safety Management System in Aviation - MS SMS-A ENAC

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ENAC Advanced Master SMS in Aviation is designed to train SMS managers who will lead the structural and administrative changes within their organization, moving it from reactive thinking to predictive thinking.

In an effort to reach the next level of aviation safety, international civil aviation authorities (ICAO, EASA, FAA), as well as IATA, require organizations and institutions alike to implement a Safety Management System (SMS) for the management of safety risks. The corresponding fields include aircraft design and production, air operations, aeronautical maintenance, air traffic services, and airport and training organizations.

SMS represents the next step in the evolution of safety processes in the aviation industry worldwide, at the organizational level. SMS complements the requirements and regulations in human or technical safety already implemented during the past decades. SMS is the formal systemic and proactive approach to anticipating and managing safety risk, as well as to initiating and achieving the necessary transformation of organizational structures, accountabilities, policies, procedures, standard practices, and regulations.

SMS is a structured process that requires organizations to apprehend possible safety issues with the same level of priority that other core business topics are managed and to continuously analyze them, in conjunction with state institutions within their State Safety Program (SSP), as well as with their industry counterparts.

The objective is to provide future SMS managers with the fundamentals of how to systematically monitor and improve aviation safety using the Safety Management System described in ANNEX 19 of the ICAO Convention. This program enables applicants to acquire practical expertise in the development, implementation, assessment, and improvement of SMS and SSP. Courses cover all of the aspects of SMS concepts, processes, methods, and operational management, either cross-domain or specific to the organization. The program is specifically engineered to address both executives as well as working levels, to consider the entire gamut of aviation organizations (aircraft operator, manufacturer, maintenance organization, airport operator, air navigation service provider, training organization), and to cover the interactions between all of these organizations.

At the soft skills level, the program emphasizes the necessity of enhancing or improving the organization's safety culture - the just culture, through a transformation of leadership, management, and employee attitudes. It will give to trainees the capacity to develop, implement and grow all of the above-mentioned aspects of an SMS in any aviation organization they work in. Furthermore, they will be able to make critical assessments of professional safety management practices and systematically deal with complex problems.

Professional Prospect

The ENAC Advanced Master Safety Management System in Aviation is designed for current or future SMS managers in charge of the development, deployment, or improvement of SMS in organizations that must comply with ICAO safety requirements.

Executive education on demand

Training modules are available on demand, individually, and within the limits of available places. Contact us for session dates and pricing at [email protected] or consult our online catalog: https://training.enac.fr

Civil Aviation Authorities:

• Safety Director or Manager
• Safety performance Manager
• SSP (State Safety Program) Manager
• Responsible for certification and approval

Industry and operators (Aircraft operator, Aircraft Manufacturer, MRO Organisation, Airport operator, Air Navigation Service Provider, Training Organisation):

• Safety Director or Manager
• SMS (Safety Management System) Manager
• Safety investigations Manager
• Safety analysis Manager