Safety Management Systems for Ground Operation Safety (SMS-RAMP)

This course presents practices and methodologies for the identification and mitigation of hazards that occur in all phases of airport ground operations. Ground operations are often the environment in which numerous costly incidents resulting in damage or injury occur. Ground mishaps cause cancelled flights, alienated customers, increased personnel costs, injured personnel and a wide range of direct and indirect negative consequences. This course teaches best practices on how to identify and mitigate ground damage and injury mishaps before they happen. The course shows how to integrate these ground safety practices into an airport’s overall SMS.

Objectives: To provide airport, air carrier and ground service company supervisors and managers with practices that will reduce ground operation mishaps to personnel and equipment. It provides an understanding of how ground operations safety management is an essential part or an airport’s or air carrier’s SMS.

Who Should Attend: Managers, supervisors and safety officers with responsibility for airport ground operations.