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Advanced Master Safety Management in Aviation (MS SMA)

  • Organisation: ENAC
  • Type of Course: Initial education - Life-long learning
  • Language(s): English
  • Place: T (French Regions: Occitanie)
  • Prepared diploma/grade/title: Advanced Master (Label of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles)
  • Level of entry: French Baccalaureat + 5

Course Details

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

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

SMS is a structured process that requires organisations 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. Thus, SMS calls for an increased responsibility from organisations regarding their internal as well as their outer interactions.

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 a 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 organisations (aircraft operator, manufacturer, maintenance organisation, airport operator, air navigation service provider, training organisation).

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

Intended for: Masters graduates or Bachelor graduates with experience

Degree Level (EU) : 7 - (EQC level or equivalent)

Prerequisites: - Bachelor degree in the same domains with a least a 3 years professional experience
- English proficiency: TOEFL 550 or equivalent

Admission requirements: Academic background and interview

Duration and terms: 1 year including 6 months internship

Notes: 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, Approved MRO Organisation, Airport operator, Air Navigation Service Provider, Approved Training Organisation):

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

Partnerships with national organisations: DGAC

International partnerships: EASA, ICAO

Dedicated web site: http://www.enac.fr/fr/safety-management-aviation

Disciplines

  • Applications, Operations

Topics

  • 14 - Transports, Intelligent Transportations Systems (ITS), Mobility, Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
  • 16 - System Engineering, Product Assurance and Safety, Qualification/Testing, Validation & Verification, Metrology, Certification
  • 18 - Human Factors, Human Machine Interfaces, Operations, Exploitation, Air Traffic Management
  • 19 - Law and Business Engineering: Law, Regulations, Standards, Management, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Purchasing, Contracts, Intellectual Property, etc.