SAR Training

Aviation Safety Management Systems

- 5 DAYS - VIRTUAL -

This Safety Management System Course is a complete SMS package. It includes essential fundamental safety concepts required for SMS, where SMS has evolved from, why it is required and what each component and element mean. Most importantly, the course details how your SMS should work as a system, and not just the sum of individual elements.

It also discusses ICAO input and NAA State Safety Program requirements. There is information on the critical need for safety culture and the Human Factors required to effect this. The course will also include how to implement SMS and what is required to make it compliant. There is a combination of theory, case studies and practical exercises to fully optimise the learning experience.

While the course utilises the ICAO SMS structure as the underlying basis, it is appropriate to students from all jurisdictions, with relevant structures explored and discussed in-course.

This course incorporates latest materials and case studies as well as taking an innovative approach to SMS delivery. Participants will gain more value than ever before with post- course access to a host of templates and guidance information to support their own SMS development and implementation

  • Introduction
  • History and reason for SMS
  • Safety fundamentals
  • SMS context
  • ICAO and CASA
  • Safety culture and Human Factors
  • SMS components 1-4
  • Building SMS
  • Integrated IT solutions in SMS
  • Risk Management Plan
  • Safety performance monitoring
  • Internal safety investigation
  • Continuous improvement
  • Management of change
  • Safety leadership
  • Current safety issues
  • Complex safety systems
  • Contemporary safety

Pre-requisite: Nil

Duration: 5 Days (Virtual)

Schedule: On request

Cost: Price on request, commercial/group bookings available

Dr Ben Butson is an Emergency, Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Physician based in Townsville, North Queensland. He recently retired from long standing positions as an Emergency Physician at the Townsville University Hospital and as the Director of Northern Operations for LifeFlight Retrieval Medicine. He is an experienced pre-hospital and retrieval consultant, having co-ordinated or conducted many hundreds of aeromedical retrieval missions, including primary response rescue missions. He has decades of experience in pre-hospital and retrieval work in the Australian civilian as well as the deployed military environment. He is a Colonel in the Army Reserve, having graduated from the Australian Defence Force Academy and then the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1991.  He has served abroad in East Timor, Solomon Islands, Afghanistan and Iraq on multiple tours. He currently works as a Senior Medical Officer in Anaesthetics at the Mount Isa Base Hospital. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the James Cook University School of Medicine where he assists in the delivery of pre-hospital and aeromedical retrieval courses. He has worked for several years in a voluntary capacity to provide medical advice to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority as well as for State and Territory police search and rescue services. He is an avid outdoorsman with a lifetime of experience in the Australian bush and coastlines.

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