Course content
The Apron Safety and Operations Management course covers the following topics:
- 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.
- Safety considerations in apron planning and design.
- Visual aids used on the apron.
- Fundamentals of safe ground vehicle operations.
- The principles of safe airside driving.
- Requirements for driver training.
- Key risks associated with aircraft operations and how to mitigate these.
- Elements of safe aircraft fuelling procedures.
- Key elements of apron management.
- The role of apron inspections in apron safety.
- Stand allocation and aircraft turnaround.
- 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.
- Major hazards presented by adverse weather conditions on apron operations and how to manage these.
- RFF procedures and their impact on apron safety.
- Elements of emergency management.
- Apron infrastructure and facilities maintenance.
- Key elements of apron construction management.
- Returning to operation after apron construction.









