UAS Safety and Risk Management

Overview/Description The safety risk management process describes the systematic application of management policies, procedures, and practices to the activities of communicating, consulting, establishing the context, and assessing, evaluating, treating, monitoring and reviewing risk. This process is undertaken to provide assurances that the risks associated with the operation of unmanned aircraft systems have been managed to acceptable levels. The safety risk management process and its outcomes form part of the documented safety case necessary to obtain approvals for unmanned aircraft system operations. It also guides the development of an organization’s operations manual and is a key component of an organization’s safety management system. The aim of this chapter is to provide existing risk practitioners with a high-level introduction to some of the unique issues and challenges in the application of the safety risk management process to unmanned aircraft systems. The scope is limited to safety risks associated with the operation of unmanned aircraft in the civil airspace system and over inhabited areas. This Course notes the unique aspects associated with the application of the safety risk management process to UAS compared to that of conventionally piloted aircraft. Key challenges discussed include the specification of high-level safety criteria, the identification, analysis, and evaluation of the risks, and the effectiveness of available technical and operational mitigation strategies. Course Content

• UAS Safety Management System
• Topics
• UC System
• Aircraft System
• Flight
• UC UAS Activity
• What’s going wrong
• Aviation Safety Management
• Introduction to Safety Management Systems
• Safety Risk Management & Safety Assurance
• How to identify hazards
• Safety
• Visualizing the system to identify hazards
• Analyze Hazards
• Control Strategies
• Summary of Mitigation Strategies
• Best Practices to Be Prepared
• Safety Measures should Scale Appropriately to the Risk
• Safety Assurance
• What can we record
• Data Acquisition
• Aircraft Telemetry
• Safety Policies
• Effective Policies
• Compliance
• Safety Promotion
• UAS Safety
• Expect a flood of UAS activity
• In 10 years!