Advanced Master in Safety Management System in Aviation - MS SMS-A

ENAC Advanced Master SMS in Aviation is designed to train SMS managers who will lead the structural and administrative changes within their organization, moving it from reactive thinking to predictive thinking.

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

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

SMS is a structured process that requires organizations 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.

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 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 organization. The program is specifically engineered to address both executives as well as working levels, to consider the entire gamut of aviation organizations (aircraft operator, manufacturer, maintenance organization, airport operator, air navigation service provider, training organization), and to cover the interactions between all of these organizations.

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

Professional Prospect

The ENAC Advanced Master Safety Management System in Aviation is designed for current or future SMS managers in charge of the development, deployment, or improvement of SMS in organizations that must comply with ICAO safety requirements.

Executive education on demand

Training modules are available on demand, individually, and within the limits of available places. Contact us for session dates and pricing at training@enac.fr or consult our online catalog: https://training.enac.fr

Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, ENAC

ENAC was founded in 1949 in Paris-Orly and moved to Toulouse in 1968.

It merged with the SEFA (Service d’Exploitation de la Formation Aéronautique) on January 1, 2011. The «Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile» (ENAC) is a unique example: it is the only aviation-oriented university in France and in Europe offering a wide and complete panel of aeronautics-oriented training programs and activities, serving the aeronautical world, particularly the air transport sector.

The ENAC university is made up of:

• 2,000 students in 25 various training courses: engineer, master, Ph.D., air transport pilot, air traffic controller, etc.,
• 7,500 trainees each year in 400 continuing education programs or advanced training courses,
• 10 research labs,
• International activities: ENAC welcomes hundreds of international students and trainees from the 5 continents each year,
• An education team has an exceptional amount of professional skills and know-how,
• High-level training material associated with its multidisciplinary activities: ATC simulators, flight simulators, 130 aircraft, laboratories for electronics, telecommunications, GNSS, UAVs, data processing, aerodynamics, languages, etc.

Through all these activities, the ENAC university is committed to meeting the requirements of the aeronautical field, in which both private and public actors are involved, either in France or abroad.

In more than 60 years, with 20,000 alumni, ENAC has acquired recognition, in France and abroad, of all the partners belonging to the wide range of its activities.

Today, thanks to the acknowledged skills of its teachers, searchers, students, trainees, and its whole staff, the ENAC university is looking to strengthen its influence throughout the world, being always committed in its field of excellence: aeronautics.