Course description
Safety Management Systems (SMSY)
- To provide you with an awareness of the issues associated with conducting technical safety activities within an organisational and regulatory environment;
- To help you develop skills at applying theoretical safety engineering knowledge.
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Upcoming start dates
1 start date available
Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for:
- Practitioners across all domains including aerospace, military, railway, automotive, civil nuclear, civil maritime, medical devices and healthcare;
- Developers of equipment safety cases during design for software, hardware, procedures, systems and/or platforms;
- Developers of safety cases for operational safety and disposal;
- Reviewers of safety cases within an organisation or as an independent activity;
- Developers and reviewers of changes to existing safety-critical / safety-related equipment and operations;
- Project managers where development of a safety case is a significant element of projects they manage;
- Regulators of safety critical domains.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of system safety terminology and lifecycle via prior learning or industrial experience. It is useful for you to have taken our Foundations of System Safety Engineering course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the evolution of regulatory and legal context for safety;
- Discuss the relationship between business and safety risk management;
- Evaluate the role of organisational structure in safety performance;
- Differentiate between safety management system documentation and safety management systems;
- List the key activities covered by a safety management system;
- Discuss the role of philosophy, policy, procedure and practice in safety management systems;
- Characterise the safety culture of an organisation;
- Prepare a work breakdown structure for a safety programme;
- Estimate cost and time for safety activities;
- Appraise a safety management proposal for practicality;
- Describe the requirements for safety competency management;
- Explain the relationship between safety competency and engineering ethics;
- Design a suite of metrics for a safety programme;
- Differentiate between proactive and reactive safety activities;
- Discuss the state of the art and future directions in safety management systems.
Course delivery details
During the teaching week there will be a combination of lecture materials and case studies to explore. The case studies give you the chance to work through an example to reinforce your learning from the lectures.
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