Safety Management Systems (SMS)

• Safety Management Systems - Complete (SMS-C). This course presents and discusses the organizational components of an SMS and the SMS Risk Control Process to safety professionals who may know nothing about Safety Management Systems, or those who may simply want to review their SMS and make sure all the pieces are in place. Toward that end, the course shows attendees how to do a "Gaps Analysis" which focuses on how to discover any Gaps in your current SMS and Risk Control Process.


• Operational Risk Management (ORM). This course focuses on the Risk Control Process and teaches safety professionals "management talk" and how to "make the business case for SMS" to managers at all levels. The course also cover the critical task of operational risk profiling and how risk profiling integrates with SMS.


• Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance (HFAM). [3 day course] This course contributes to the Safety Management Systems program by providing dynamic and focused human factors training in aviation maintenance to the civilian and military aviation maintenance workplace. The course design parallels the maintenance human factors course SCSI provided to FAA aviation safety inspectors which the FAA designated an FAA-accepted training course.


• Investigation in Safety Management Systems (ISMS). This course provides Safety Officers and managers with knowledge and training in the process of investigating minor accidents and incidents in an aviation organization. It supports the implementation of an SMS by providing the tools and techniques used to investigate incidents, minor accidents and hazards. There is also practical training in how to investigate an occurrence from initial notification through to writing an investigation report.


• Safety Management Systems - Quality Assurance (SMSQA). [3 day course] This course shows you how to examine all of the SMS elements to verify that they meet the regulatory requirements and more importantly, to ensure that they are effectively reducing risk in your operation. It provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct a complete audit of an SMS.


• Flight Safety Officer Course (FSO). This course is designed to provide individuals with a working knowledge of aircraft mishap prevention and mishap investigation procedures, policies and techniques. Course graduates will be capable of performing the duties of a full-time flight safety officer and as the investigator for aircraft incidents.

The following courses are currently available by contract only.

• Crew Resource Management (CRM). The ultimate aim of this course is to improve Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills (e.g., communication, leadership, situation awareness and conscientiousness) using the information->demonstration->practice->feedback model, an approach that has been shown to produce measurable improvements in team performance. In addition to CRM skills development, team building/cohesiveness enhancement is a major focus of the course and, especially in cases where multiple participants from the same organization attend concurrently, allows participants to work together more effectively to achieve unit or company goals after training is completed.


• Human Error and Accident Prevention (HEAP). To help your organization achieve the goal of "managing" human error, SCSI's latest workshop, HEAP, addresses this critical task. HEAP is a practical, case-study-based human factors course that focuses on understanding the causal chain and then how to develop and implement effective mitigation and prevention strategies.


• Leading Change in SMS (LCSMS). This course focuses on the human and organizational factors (organizational behavior, communication, change, climate and culture) in creating, transitioning to or implementing an SMS. Topics include the well known ways people resist change, and ways to successfully overcome resistance to change.


• Ramp and Maintenance Safety (RMS). This course contributes to the Safety Management Systems Certificate Program by providing best safety practices for ramp and maintenance operations. Compliance with occupational safety requirements, maintenance resource management, and data collection and utilization are incorporated. The role of ramp and maintenance safety in establishing safety goals, a safety culture, audits and risk management are presented.


• Practical System Safety (PSS). This course contributes to the Safety Management Systems Certificate Program by providing an in-depth review of tools and techniques used to evaluate operations, facilities, equipment, and life cycle activities as part of the risk management, safety audits and assessments, and hazard identification features of SMS. Tools presented include fault tree analysis, critical incident analysis, zonal analysis, and job hazard analysis.