CAA Operational Recovery during a Pandemic
Part of the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Programme
- 4-days virtual training (4-hour daily sessions)
- Know how to adapt CAA surveillance during a pandemic
- Learn how to overcome oversight and surveillance challenges
- Understand how and when to resume normal oversight and surveillance
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New dates coming soon.
Please contact us for more information.
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Lift-off safely and securely into the ‘new normal’
To support industry and Civil Aviation Authorities through challenging times, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and CAA International (CAAi) have jointly developed a unique virtual training classroom course.
Course Overview
Delivered by leading subject matter experts, participants will learn how to navigate compliance, training and operational challenges during the recovery period of a global pandemic.
The course provides CAA senior and middle managers with an overview of the necessary safety and security oversight and surveillance activities during the recovery phase of a pandemic. It is also particularly beneficial for organisations that have applied for alleviations and exemptions or significantly reduced their business scope in terms of size, management infrastructure or complexity, during a pandemic or similar crisis.
The course aims to demonstrate how a CAA can review and assess how its industry has planned and prepared to restart operations. This will include the assessments of the Service Provider’s regulatory compliance and safety and security management during the Pandemic contractions and the recovery period. Participants can translate this knowledge learnt for use in their professional environments.
Who should attend?
The course is suitable for senior and middle managers of CAAs. This would include the Director General, Managers of the Safety Management Department and Managers of oversight and surveillance departments.
It is also suitable for senior industry management personnel involved in the restart operations.
Key topics
- Annex 19 and the State Safety Programme (SSP)
- The impact of a pandemic of CAA staff and CAA oversight and surveillance
- The impact of a pandemic on the aviation industry including its staff and passengers
- Apply a safety risk-based surveillance approach during a pandemic situation
- Review the options aviation to CAA’s when adapting oversight and surveillance activities including the monitoring of exemptions and their effectiveness.
- Human Factors and the impact of a pandemic on human performance
- The impact of a pandemic on Safety Culture
- CAA assessment of the restart of Airports and Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP)
- Optional risks related to Airports and ANSPs
- Aviation Security considerations
- Security Culture
- Aviation Security risk management principles and their application during a pandemic
- CAA assessment of the restart of FLight Operations and Approved Training Organisations
- Operational risks
- CAA assessment of the restart of Airworthiness Organisations
- Operational risks related to airworthiness
- Challenges and solutions for CAAs in dealing with a pandemic.
Course objectives
By the end of this course participants will, via presentation, interactive discussion and a final mastery test of knowledge, skills and attitude be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following:
- Key oversight and surveillance challenges facing industry and the CAA
- How CAA surveillance will need to be adapted
- Safety risk-based surveillance during the pandemic
- Resumption of normal oversight and surveillance
- The management of the change process within the organisations’ Safety Management System (SMS).
Prerequisites
Participants should be familiar with ICAO safety and/or security oversight programmes, iSTARS, Safety Management and/or Security Management Systems in a relevant operational environment including a basic understanding of the ICAO SMS framework.
Preparation
Participants need to review ICAO Annex 17 (Security) and Annex 19 (Safety Management Systems) prior to the course.
Delivery Methods: Virtual
This course is delivered virtually.
Browse the table below to select your preferred date.
Course type:
- Web = Virtual online delivery using WebEx video conferencing. We have applied a 5% discount to all our virtual course deliveries. Unless stated otherwise, our virtual courses are streamed live, starting at 09:00 am (UK time).
26-29 April 2021.
The course will be streamed live, starting at 06:00 – 10:00 (UK GMT time). Please see below for other time zones.
- Paris: 07:00-11:00
- Cairo: 08:00-12:00
- Bangkok: 13:00-17:00
- Lima: 01:00-05:00

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Richard Miller
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Ben Bamber
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Ben started his aviation career in 1971 via an RAF Flying Scholarship and possessed a Pilot’s Licence before he had a Driving Licence. He went on to serve in the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot, and worked for the Bristow Helicopter Group, the British Midland Airways Group and the British Airways Group in various flying, training and management roles.
Ben joined the UK CAA in 2003 as a Flight Operations Training Inspector and worked as the Lead Inspector with a number of the UK’s major Airlines and AOCs, including Britannia / Thomson Airways where he was responsible for the introduction of the Boeing 787 into Airline Service, and onto the UK Register. In 2016, Ben moved into the UK CAA International Group, where he has worked with such other National Authorities as Kuwait, Mongolia, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Ireland, Seychelles and others, as well as delivering training for diverse and different bodies, ranging from EASA to the Department of Forests Fire-Fighting Flight Unit.
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