System safety and SMS

At present we are offering the following courses in this area of expertise:

SGS-201: Safety assessment of aircraft systems

Description

The course aims at presenting the fundamentals of safety assessment in aerospace system design, as well as to provide familiarization with requirements, procedures and documents related to aircraft certification.

Objectives

  • Provide an overview of safety assessment methods related to aeronautical systems
  • Provide insights on specific certification requirements (RBHA/FAR/CS 25 1309) and their means of compliance
  • Discuss the key design criteria, systems architecture and engineering tools as defined by SAE ARP 4761
  • Assess aviation failures in general and, in particular the most potentially dangerous (rotor non-containment, lightning strikes, bird strikes etc.)
  • Develop the concept of in-service reliability control (continued airworthiness), as well as the role of maintenance in preserving the inherent aircraft design safety level

Program

  • Certification Requirements RBHA/FAR/CS 25 1309
  • Basic notions and general principles of systems architecture - the fail-safe design criteria
  • Lessons learned
  • Failures Modes
  • Common mode failures: rotor non-containment, bird/lightning strikes, etc
  • Systems Assessment - introduction, concept of functions and assessment types
  • Systems Assessment examples
  • Continued airworthiness - the relationship between the Safety Assessment, MSG-3 and reliability control programs

Target audience

  • Engineers and technicians who are involved or plan to be involved with aircraft or systems certification and systems safety assessment
  • Professionals with experience in aircraft design and aircraft certification, maintenance and operation

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of aircraft and their systems

Running time

40 class-hours

Technical coordinator

Luiz Alberto Nolasco Fonseca

AEC-902: Safety management systems (SMS) (lecture)

Description

The aim of the lecture is to present the basics of safety management systems (SMS), as well as the relevant legislation.

Program

  • The safety concept
  • What is SMS
  • SMS features
  • SMS structures
  • Applicable regulations
  • The evolution of safety thinking
  • The organizational accident
  • The management dilemma
  • Strategies
  • Intervention levels and tools
  • Definitions of hazards and consequences
  • Risk definition
  • Risk management
  • Risk probability
  • Risk severity
  • Risk tolerance

Target audience

  • Professionals of any field with an interest in the subject

Prerequisites

  • None

Running time

02 class-hours

Technical coordinator

Jorge Luiz Vieira Andrade