The French Institute for Aviation Safety
Since 1987, THE FRENCH INSTITUTE FOR AVIATION SAFETY (IFSA) provides training services to staff and executives involved in all areas of aviation safety: Prevention, Investigation and Operational Risk Management. Depending on the training required, from two days to four weeks training modules are proposed to aeronautical specialists and aviation supervising authorities. Training is developed within the framework of SMS (Safety Management System) and is relying on most recent theoretical bases inspired by research and experience of national and international organizations such as: ICAO, the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI).
Attendees are provided with practical tools and an adequate methodology to better achieve their prevention goals or to give new aims to the flight safety strategy of their company, airline, civilian or military organizations.
Groups from 10 to a maximum of 20 attendees, belonging to various aeronautical specialities and organisations, are supervised by lecturers and course leaders: each session allows better sharing of mutual experience and the creation of a flight safety think-tank.
Furthermore, with training delivered in French or English (or Spanish on request), such courses favour international exchanges and enrich the thinking of the flight safety community.
As of July 1st, 2011, IFSA has trained more than 6100 attendees from 93 different countries.
IFSA experts and auditors are also involved in the implementation of Safety Management Systems (SMS), flight safety evaluations and problem solving or crisis management guidance, Human Factors, CRM programs as required by airlines and other organisations.
It is widely admitted now that safety belongs to flight services quality and improves the brand image of an airline, and of other civilian or military organizations, when it is placed on top of their management skills. Also keeping up the technical and financial capabilities of any organization is a permanent prevention concern of managers. They too need the best training in safety management.
