Introduction
The programme “Developing Preventive Maintenance Procedures and Strategies” develops professional practice in Aviation. It connects the subject with workplace challenges by examining existing evidence and practices and choosing methods appropriate to the organization and its available resources.
The learning progresses from maintenance planning, work orders, and execution measurement to occupational safety, risk assessment, and prevention, with practical work on procedure analysis and work simplification, strategy formulation and prioritization, aviation operations, safety management, and service quality. Participants prepare outputs to support workplace application and review the quality and results of implementation.
Learning objectives
- Build a maintenance plan and work order connecting asset criticality, resources, and documentation in an application related to “Developing Preventive Maintenance Procedures and Strategies”.
- Redesign a procedure to reduce delays and rework while maintaining controls.
- Translate strategic direction into actionable objectives and initiatives.
- Analyze an aviation or airport process and connect its safety to coordination, data, and controls.
- Prepare a work risk assessment and prevention and response plan based on the hierarchy of controls.
Learning areas
1. Maintenance Planning, Work Orders, and Execution Measurement
- Inventory assets and build a hierarchy, coding system, technical data, and maintenance history, classifying criticality by safety, service, and cost.
- Select a mix of preventive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance, connecting the decision to failure modes, data, and manufacturer instructions.
- Plan the work order's scope, resources, materials, time, isolation, and permits, and define readiness conditions before scheduling.
- Organize schedules, shutdowns, and equipment handovers between operations and maintenance, recording actual work, causes, parts, and time.
- Analyze backlog, recurrence, plan compliance, and reliability, and propose documented adjustments to maintenance tasks and their frequency. The application examines a case related to “Developing Preventive Maintenance Procedures and Strategies”.
2. Procedure Analysis and Work Simplification
- Define the procedure's start, end, owner, inputs, and outputs, and collect data on processing time, waiting, and rework.
- Map the actual workflow between roles, identifying approvals, handovers, bottlenecks, and duplicate data entry.
- Analyze the value added by each step and the controls it provides, and propose combining, removing, or running steps in parallel with reasons for the choice.
- Document the improved procedure with clear authorities, forms, timelines, and standards, and review its effects on beneficiaries and delivery teams.
- Test the procedure on a limited case, measure time, errors, and output quality, and document adjustments and the rollout plan.
3. Strategy Formulation and Prioritization
- Analyze the internal and external environment using available data, and distinguish opportunities from assumptions that require verification.
- Define a specific strategic problem and connect it to the organization's mission and the value sought by beneficiaries and stakeholders.
- Set measurable objectives with a baseline, target, and time horizon, and assign a clear owner to each objective.
- Prioritize initiatives according to impact, feasibility, resources, risks, and interdependencies, explaining the reasons for the trade-offs.
- Build an implementation roadmap covering phases, owners, resources, review gates, and a mechanism for adjusting priorities when circumstances change.
4. Aviation Operations, Safety Management, and Service Quality
- Define the operation type, participants, and responsibilities of the operator, airport, maintenance, and ground services, referring to the relevant regulatory framework.
- Analyze work handovers, timing, information, and human factors, identifying error and coordination points affecting operational safety.
- Apply the concepts of safety policy, risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion to a training case relevant to the subject.
- Select data and indicators for monitoring reliability, compliance, and service quality, checking data confidentiality and the validity of trend interpretations.
- Prepare an improvement or response scenario at the planning and simulation level, following operating manuals and recognizing that training does not authorize technical work.
5. Occupational Safety, Risk Assessment, and Prevention
- Identify task hazards, exposed people, and site conditions, gathering information from observations, records, and equipment instructions.
- Estimate the risk level and select appropriate controls from elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment.
- Review work procedures, permits, isolation, communication, and supervision according to the task, and define responsibility for stopping unsafe work.
- Analyze an incident or near miss using facts and evidence, examining systemic causes and failed controls beyond blaming individuals.
- Prepare a tabletop emergency exercise and an inspection, awareness, and follow-up plan, assigning field execution to qualified personnel under approved procedures.
Practical outputs
- A maintenance plan, work schedule, work order card, and monitoring indicators.
- An improved procedure map, service profile, and acceptance criteria for implementation.
- A strategy map and a priority matrix for proposed initiatives.
- An aviation process map, risk register, and indicator and follow-up plan.
- A task risk assessment and an inspection, training, and response plan.
Who should attend
- Engineers, technicians, supervisors and operations staff whose work relates to the programme subject.
- Managers and teams working in aviation, according to their practical responsibilities.
- Professionals responsible for applying the outputs of “Developing Preventive Maintenance Procedures and Strategies” within their organizations.
Prerequisites
- Working familiarity with the programme field and the ability to discuss a professional case or challenge.
- Confirm the suitability of your experience and any specialist prerequisites with the Union before participation.
Conclusion
The programme “Developing Preventive Maintenance Procedures and Strategies” brings together concepts, case review and a practical application. Participants prepare steps that can be adapted to their responsibilities and organizational resources, with an indicator to follow application and review results after returning to work.
Participation arrangements and any special requests are specified in the confirmation issued by the Union.