Apron Safety and Operations Management

Learning Objectives

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand best practices for the planning and design of apron layouts and facilities.
• Recommend effective standard operational practices for safe apron operations.
• Describe effective processes for managing maintenance and construction activities on aprons.
• Recognize how to enhance safety, improve operations and prevent or reduce accidences, incidents and occurrence on the apron.

Who Should Enrol?

• All new employees that require initial safety training as part of their induction process.
• Existing employees that require initial or recurrent safety training.
• Personnel from all airport stakeholders and service providers that operate at the airport.
• Airport managers, supervisors or personnel with operations, safety or compliance responsibilities.
• Personnel responsible for training and facilitating airside operational staff.
• Anyone interested in a career in airport operations and/or safety.

Course Content

The Apron Safety and Operations Management course covers the following topics:

Apron Safety

• The importance of apron safety.
• Managing hazards on the apron to ensure the health and safety of staff working airside.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• The role of safety promotion.
• Accident, incident and occurrence reporting.
• The importance of stakeholder agreements in apron operations.

Apron Planning & Design

• Safety considerations in apron planning and design.
• Visual aids used on the apron.

Vehicle Operations

• Fundamentals of safe ground vehicle operations.
• The principles of safe airside driving.
• Requirements for driver training.

Aircraft Operations and Fuelling

• Key risks associated with aircraft operations and how to mitigate these.
• Elements of safe aircraft fuelling procedures.

Apron Management

• Key elements of apron management.
• The role of apron inspections in apron safety.
• Stand allocation and aircraft turnaround.

Ground Handling

• Ensuring safe aircraft ground handling and servicing.
• Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) operation.
• Managing key hazards – including dangerous goods and foreign object debris (FOD).
• Passenger safety.

Adverse Weather Operations

• Major hazards presented by adverse weather conditions on apron operations and how to manage these.

Rescue and Firefighting (RFF)

• RFF procedures and their impact on apron safety.
• Elements of emergency management.

Apron Maintenance and Construction

• Apron infrastructure and facilities maintenance.
• Key elements of apron construction management.
• Returning to operation after apron construction.

Assessment

This course includes an integrated online assessment. 

Candidates must successfully complete the assessment to receive a Certificate of Completion.