Aviation Risk Management Training Course

Participants can identify and describe operational hazards using structured aviation evidence sources.

• Systematically identify hazards using operational process maps and task analysis
• Collect hazard evidence from reports, audits, flight data, and observations
• Apply SHELL model factors to human, equipment, and environmental interfaces
• Threat identification at airport, flight operations, maintenance, and ground handling
• Structured brainstorming techniques that prevent single-discipline hazard blind spots
• Convert vague safety concerns into observable hazard statements and conditions
• Maintain a hazard register with sources, consequences, owners, and status

Participants can assess aviation risks consistently and make evidence-based risk acceptance recommendations.

• Severity and likelihood scales calibrated against credible operational consequences
• Construct risk matrices with defined tolerability bands and escalation triggers
• Assess existing controls before estimating residual risk and treatment priority
• Distinguish probability, exposure, detectability, and consequence in risk evaluations
• Document assumptions, uncertainty, and data limitations within risk assessments
• Apply ALARP principles when further risk reduction requires disproportionate resources
• Present risk acceptance recommendations with clear operational decision criteria

Participants can select and apply structured methods for analysing hazards, controls and consequences.

• BowTie diagrams linking threats, preventive barriers, recovery measures, and consequences
• FMEA scoring failure modes, effects, causes, controls, and action priorities
• Fault tree logic for combinations leading to a defined top event
• Event tree analysis tracing barrier performance after an initiating event
• Swiss Cheese Model used to examine organisational defence weaknesses
• Select assessment techniques according to data quality, complexity, and consequence
• Record rationale and limitations when combining qualitative and quantitative methods

Participants can design safety controls and action plans that remain testable after implementation.

• Control hierarchy applied to eliminate, substitute, engineer, administer, and protect
• Barrier management assigns performance standards, owners, verification, and maintenance
• SMART corrective actions linked to causal factors and accountable owners
• Safety assurance checks test whether mitigations remain effective over time
• Prioritise treatments using risk reduction, feasibility, cost, and operational impact
• Develop action plans with milestones, evidence requirements, and closure criteria
• Escalate overdue controls through governance forums and accountable executives

Participants can incorporate human performance and organisational factors into aviation risk assessments.

• Human performance variability considered within normal operational work
• HFACS categories distinguish organisational, supervisory, precondition, and unsafe-act influences
• Fatigue risk indicators linked to rostering, duty limits, and reporting
• Situational awareness failures analysed through information, perception, and projection gaps
• Communication breakdowns examined using standard phraseology, handovers, and readbacks
• Procedural drift identified through work-as-imagined and work-as-done comparisons
• Design reporting systems that capture human factors without assigning blame

Participants can investigate safety occurrences and convert findings into measurable improvements.

• Occurrence reporting thresholds under mandatory and voluntary reporting processes
• Classify reports by event type, operational area, risk, and trend
• Five Whys and causal factor charts distinguish symptoms from causes
• Timeline analysis reconstructs decisions, conditions, barriers, and recovery opportunities
• Preserve evidence, interview witnesses, and protect confidential safety information
• Convert investigation findings into corrective actions and safety performance indicators
• Trend analysis combines occurrence rates, exposure data, and control performance

Participants can assess and control risks introduced by operational, technical and supplier changes.

• Management of change triggers for aircraft, routes, procedures, and suppliers
• Define proposed change scope, affected interfaces, assumptions, and dependencies
• Pre-implementation risk assessments identify new hazards and weakened controls
• Supplier and contractor assurance evaluates competence, interfaces, and safety obligations
• Operational readiness reviews confirm training, documentation, equipment, and contingency arrangements
• Post-change monitoring tests assumptions through indicators, reports, and audits
• Approve changes using documented acceptance criteria and accountable authority

Participants can monitor safety controls and report risk performance to management.

• Safety assurance programme connecting audits, inspections, monitoring, and management review
• Audit criteria derived from SMS procedures, regulations, and control standards
• Flight data monitoring identifies unstable approaches, exceedances, and emerging trends
• Design safety performance indicators with measures, thresholds, owners, and review frequency
• Leading indicators measure control health before adverse events occur
• Management review packs connect risk status, actions, trends, and resources
• Internal assurance findings translated into decisions, accountability, and follow-up

Participants can communicate well-supported risk decisions and prepare an immediate workplace application plan.

• Airport turnaround risk assessment integrating ramp, fuelling, catering, and dispatch interfaces
• Unstable approach scenario analysed with threats, barriers, and recovery actions
• Maintenance error scenario assessed through task steps, defences, and supervision
• Emergency response interfaces between SMS, crisis management, and business continuity
• Risk communication formats for crews, managers, regulators, and contracted providers
• Personal application plan identifies priority assessments, stakeholders, and first actions
• Peer review criteria test assessment clarity, evidence, controls, and ownership