What is the Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist?

The Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Occupational Health & Safety.

How long does this certification take?

The programme takes 12 Weeks and can be completed self-paced or with live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications carry CPD credits and are internationally recognised.

What level is this certification?

This is a Expert / Executive Level certification.

Email info@certifications.ac, WhatsApp +254 722 223 084, or fill in the enrolment form on this page.

What is included in the fee?

All study materials, study guide, examination, digital certificate and badge. Live option adds tutor sessions and priority support.

Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist in Thailand

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

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Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist

Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist: industry context, trends and professional standards
Occupational safety and health principles
The business and moral case for HSE
HSE roles, responsibilities and competence
Legal framework and regulatory duties
Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
The hierarchy of controls
Safety culture and leadership
Ethics and duty of care
HSE as a strategic enabler
Career pathways and professional development

The Hierarchy of Control

The hierarchy of control
Risk assessment that changes what happens
Permit to work and high-risk task control
Safety leadership and visible commitment
Motivation, recognition and consequences
Just culture and reporting
Contractor safety and shared workplaces
Occupational health, exposure and health surveillance
Incident investigation and root cause
Emergency preparedness and evacuation
Safety culture, leadership and behaviour
Environmental management and pollution control
HSE legal duties and enforcement
Measuring HSE performance
Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk

Risk Assessment in Practice

Risk assessment that changes what happens
The hierarchy of control
Measuring HSE performance
Worker and union engagement
Regulator and auditor relationships
Contractor and client engagement
Building a proactive safety culture
Continuous improvement programmes
Integrity in reporting and investigation
Anti-corruption and honest compliance
Capstone scoping: a real HSE challenge
Hazard identification techniques
Physical hazards: noise, vibration, radiation
Exposure assessment and monitoring
Occupational diseases and prevention

High-Risk Work and Contractors

Permit to work and high-risk task control
Contractor safety and shared workplaces
HSE legal duties and enforcement
Regulatory compliance and audits
Continuous fire-safety improvement
Stakeholder mapping and consultation
Ventilation and exposure control
First aid and medical emergency response
Machinery and equipment safety
Working at height and fall protection
Construction and site safety
Transport, driving and fleet safety
Investigation methodology and evidence
Regulatory notification and RIDDOR-style reporting
Near-miss and hazard reporting culture

Health, Exposure and Wellbeing

Occupational health, exposure and health surveillance
Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
Safety culture, leadership and behaviour
Monitoring, sensors and wearables
Roles, responsibilities and consultation
Safety culture and climate
Human factors and error reduction
Fire behaviour and spread
Fire load and compartmentation
Fire risk assessment methodology
Ignition sources and control
Human behaviour in fire
Fire safety in building design
Documentation and review
Fire detection and alarm systems

Incidents and Emergencies

Incident investigation and root cause
Emergency preparedness and evacuation
Measuring HSE performance
Coordination with fire services
Post-incident review
Fire safety management systems
Training and awareness
Portable fire extinguishers
Sprinkler and suppression systems
Smoke control and ventilation
Passive fire protection
Emergency lighting and signage
Inspection, testing and maintenance
Standards and codes
System design principles

Legal Duties and Environment

HSE legal duties and enforcement
Environmental management and pollution control
Measuring HSE performance
Fire wardens and roles
Incident command basics
Commissioning and reliability
Emergency response planning
Evacuation procedures and drills

Risk and Resilience

Analysis and diagnostic assessment
Enterprise risk management (ERM)
Regulatory impact assessment
Market attractiveness and country assessment
Organisational culture assessment and change
Stakeholder engagement and risk management
Employment compliance and the HR risk agenda
Preparing financial statements
Risk assessment methodology and matrices
Dynamic and site-specific risk assessment
Residual risk and ALARP
Risk registers and reporting
Continuous risk monitoring
How insurance works: risk pooling and the value chain
Underwriting principles and risk selection

Legal and Regulatory

Regulatory mapping and obligations
Compliance monitoring and testing
Regulatory change management
Managing regulator relationships
Compliance reporting and disclosure
Building a compliance culture
Policy cycle and evidence-based policy
Legal and regulatory responsibility
Environmental legal compliance
Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
Legal and other requirements
Regulatory compliance and biosafety
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Interpreting financial statements
Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice

Operations and Supervision

In-process quality control and inspection
Industrial utilities, energy and process safety interfaces
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Mineral processing and beneficiation
Outcome and process measures
Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
Journey and process redesign
Customer-centric operating models
Operational efficiency and productivity
Reconciliation and end-of-day processes
Operating-model and process re-engineering
The HR function: roles, operating models and value creation
Continuous improvement of finance processes
Process improvement and HR operating efficiency
Employee relations, discipline and fair process

Security Technology

Payment technology and switches
Data, analytics and customer insight
Cybersecurity and fraud technology
Technology governance and change control
Digital credit and alternative data
Data analytics in audit
Data migration and cleansing
Performance management systems and cycles
Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
The finance function and digital transformation
Analytics translation: from data to decision
Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
Management accounts and dashboards
Confidentiality and health data
Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)

Emergency and Incident

Business continuity and crisis management
Crisis communications
Budget vs actual and variance
Cost and profitability analysis
Emergency preparedness and response planning
Incident reporting and record-keeping
Risk response and contingency
Incident management and response
Emergency preparedness and planning
Crisis management and command
Emergency evacuation planning
Emergency, humanitarian and constrained procurement
Incident and response performance
Security risk assessment and proportionate response
Business continuity and disaster recovery

Personnel and Capability

Career and talent development
Capability and skills frameworks
Training needs analysis and learning strategy
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Succession planning and talent pipelines
Talent sourcing channels and pipelines
High-potential identification and talent reviews
Knowledge management and capability building
Workforce planning and the capability gap
Learning transfer and capability building
Talent review and succession in practice
Coordination with teams and agencies
Managing technology teams and technical work
Building digital capability in an organisation
Workforce and shift management in retail

Ethics and Conduct

Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Accountability and follow-through
Ethics of technology in practice
Ethics and independence
Ethics in communications
Ethics and professional standards in finance
Stakeholders, agency and accountability

Leadership and Command

Relationship management and cross-selling
Sales performance and pipeline management
Liquidity and funding management
Investment portfolio management
IT service management and ITIL
Configuration and asset management
Thought leadership
Category management and strategy
Change management and adoption
Theories and models of leadership and management
Project management principles and lifecycle
Issue and problem management
Communication planning and management
Negotiation and conflict management
Escalation and decision-making

Communication and Reporting

Toolbox talks and safety communication
Communicating vision and telling stories
Executive communication and presence
Cross-cultural communication
Sustainability reporting and disclosure
Communication during crises
Communications and coordination
Dashboards, reporting and the metric that misleads
Data storytelling and communicating findings
Proposal development and donor reporting
The media and telecommunications landscape
Data quality, analysis and reporting
Professional report writing and presentation
Communication and interpersonal skills
Influencing and presenting insights

Stakeholders and Liaison

Regulatory liquidity ratios (LCR, NSFR)
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape
Stakeholders and users of financial information
The regulatory and legal environment
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
Stakeholder engagement plan
Shareholder and stakeholder rights
Stakeholder and impact analysis
Market entry modes and partner selection
The HR business partner role and mandate
Categories of spend and stakeholders
Corporate responsibility and community
Working with police, regulators and the justice system
Forecasting and planning

Cost, Assets and Loss

Asset-liability committee (ALCO) governance
Development banking and project finance
SME lending and value-chain finance
Microfinance and group lending
Financial inclusion and agency banking
Decision support and insight
Impact, blended and concessional finance
Total cost of ownership
Ration formulation and least-cost feeding
Financial inclusion strategy
The role of finance in organisations and value creation
Financial risk in projects
Procurement and contract value
Value engineering and optimisation
Realising and measuring project value

Data and Intelligence

Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
Health records, data and confidentiality
Communicating financial results
Attachment and developmental theory
Analytical techniques and bias
Data visualisation for finance
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Record-keeping and data protection
Service KPIs: CSAT, NPS, CES, SLAs
Complaint data and learning
Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
Service analytics and dashboards

Planning and Design

Designing an HR intervention or policy
Onboarding and induction programme design
Managing boundaries and dual relationships
Designing a safety programme or control
Policy, planning and objectives
Interaction and experience design
Design review and quality
Blended and hybrid design
Business model design and innovation
Scenario planning and foresight
Negotiation strategy and planning
Peer support and consultation
Tour and event concept design and packaging
Event planning timelines, run sheets and production schedules
Event risk, safety and contingency planning

People Risk

Employee experience and engagement
Customer and employee satisfaction
Employee engagement models and drivers
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Employee engagement and what actually drives it
NGO financial management and budget-versus-actual discipline
The customer experience (CX) discipline
Credit analysis and the 5 Cs of credit
Financial statement and cash-flow analysis
Foreign exchange and treasury operations
Enterprise risk management in banks

Audit and Standards

Costing production: standard costs, variances and the true cost of scrap
Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects
Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Reporting quality and governance
Evidence-based improvement
Duty of care and risk management
Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
Quality and delivery metrics
Continuous improvement and retrospectives
Driving measurable delivery improvement
Assurance engagements and standards
Audit risk and materiality
Continuous improvement of delivery
Quality assurance and standards

Health and Safety

Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Client feedback and satisfaction
Telehealth and digital care delivery
Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Health, safety and compliance in delivery
Brand safety and responsible marketing
Customer and brand health metrics
Brand health and measurement
Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
Managing risk and difficult cases
Measuring brand health
Safety communication and campaigns

Change and Modernisation

Foreign exchange and hedging
Lessons learned and development
Designing and facilitating groups
Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
Change talk and readiness
Habit change and behaviour design
Change control and configuration
Organisational change management
Change and adoption in projects
Agile and digital transformation projects
Measuring change and project impact
Customer experience transformation
Digital and self-service transformation
Measuring CX transformation impact
Digital transformation in banking

Service and Public Interface

Self-service and digital support
Customer experience strategy
Customer journey mapping
Voice of the customer programmes
Design thinking for service
Reducing customer effort
Customer effort and sentiment analysis
CRM systems and customer data
Customer service technology stack
Social media customer care
Unified customer view
Buyer behaviour and the customer journey
Voice of the customer and feedback
Public versus private procurement
Inventory service levels and the cost of stockouts

Records and Procedure

Data, records and confidentiality tech
Lessons learned and knowledge management
Professional documentation and presentation
Process and control documentation
Tender planning and documentation
Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
Psychoeducation and workshops
Supplier development and innovation
Training needs analysis
Root-cause analysis and problem solving
Strategic analysis: PESTLE, SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces

Strategy and Governance

Setting strategic priorities and choices
Aligning teams around strategy
Strategy execution and the balanced scorecard
Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
Measuring strategic progress
Turning strategy into results
Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
Category management and strategy development
Sourcing strategies and portfolio (Kraljic)
Contract governance and compliance
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Sustainability strategy and materiality
Environmental governance and climate risk
Governance of ESG and reporting
Technology strategy and architecture choices

Contractors and Supply

Procurement and asset management under donor rules
Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
Designing an intervention or programme
Subcontractor and supplier management
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Professional case study and presentation
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Procurement and contract management
Vendor selection and management
Supply market analysis
Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
Supply markets and the enabling environment
Digital procurement and the future of the profession

HSE Practice

Intelligence-led risk assessment
Threat and risk assessment for principals
Access control, screening and visitor management
Ground control and strata management
Mine water, tailings and environmental management
Evidence-based practice
Project budgeting and financial control
Monitoring, control and reporting
Quality control and continuous improvement
Integrated risk and quality control
Market analysis and environmental scanning
Control environment and risk assessment
Fraud risk and controls
Sustainability and environmental duty
Environmental monitoring and reporting

Professional Leadership Practice

Inclusive leadership and allyship
Performance management that changes behaviour
Risk assessment and safety planning
Management review and improvement
Leadership versus management and when each is needed
Situational and adaptive leadership
Values, purpose and authentic leadership
Self-awareness and the leader's identity
Quality management and standards
Data quality and master data management
Security governance and management systems
Team leadership in banking operations
Reconciliation and nostro/vostro management
Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
Sanctions screening and PEP management

Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CAIR2 certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with ISO 45001, OSHA and recognised occupational health and safety standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CAIR2?

This certification is ideal for Safety and Health Officers, HSE Managers and Supervisors, Site and Operations Safety Leads and Risk and Compliance Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in occupational safety, health and workplace wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CAIR2 certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 12 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CAIR2 internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CAIR2 certification?

The Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CAIR2 certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CAIR2?

The Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CAIR2?

The Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CAIR2 while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CAIR2?

Graduates progress towards senior HSE and safety-leadership roles. The CAIR2 strengthens your expertise in occupational safety, health and workplace wellbeing and positions you for advancement across construction, energy, manufacturing, marine and industrial operations.

Certified Aviation Safety and SMS Specialist