SMA04 - Safety Management : Manufacturer Présentiel

After completing this module, the student will be able to:

• Work in teams on SMS development, covering both design and production aspects, from a complete analysis of its organisation and its environment, from the understanding of its characteristics, and by taking into account the regulatory requirements.

• Implement and drive the SMS.

• Assess and update the SMS

LEVEL OF ENGLISH:

TOEIC: 850 for 2-skill test; 785 for 4-skill test

IELTS: 6

The key characteristics of a manufacturer organization :

• Introduction,
• Scope of activities : products versus,
• The manufacturer's environment : other manufacturers, suppliers, Supplemental Type Certificate holders, operators...
• EASA organisation approval context :
  • Introduction to DOA and POA concepts;
  • Differences with models based on individual representatives (Ex: Federal Aviation Administration)

How to initially assess safety risks and mitigate them during development phase ?

• At Manufacturer organisation level :
  • Analysis of the risks inherent to the manufacturer's organisation during the aircraft development phase,
  • Certification activities as mitigation means.
• At aircraft/systems design level: Introduction to CS25.1309 as an example of predictive risk management method :
  • Risk analysis and assessment tools,
  • HF in design phase.

How to maintain safety risks at acceptable level and proactively improve safety when an aircraft is in service ?

• Process approach to aircraft series phase, including management of change at organisation level and aircraft design and production levels,
• Reminder on Continued Airworthiness regulatory context,
• Building an efficient system for safety data collection and for safety data analysis at manufacturer level,
• Analysis of production/manufacturing events,
• Aircraft product safety Enhancement :
  • Why going beyond airworthiness risk assessment ?
  • How to identify and analyse aircraft product safety issues ?
  • How to develop an action plan for aircraft safety enhancement ?
• Illustration by numerous examples

Aircraft Safety Case

• Based on real examples, addressing both the organisation and the aircraft products, students will :
  • study hazards
  • build scenarios
  • decide on additional reviews, investigations, tests... to be launched
  • propose safety actions to mitigate the risks
  • propose indicators to monitor the performance of the decided safety actions
  • write lessons learnt

How to implement a SMS for a manufacturer ?

• SMS at corporate level for a manufacturer :
• Interactions with other SMSs
• Interactions with other management systems Governance framework,
• Gap analysis for the 4 SMS components :
  • What is already present
  • What is missing? What is specific to SMS?
  • Safety performance framework.

Manufacturer SMS implementation case study :
Case study based on a fictive aircraft manufacturer.

Perform gap analysis and build the implementation.

Methods :
Lectures, tutorials, case studies