TRB Webinar: A Safety Management System (SMS) Approach for Wildlife Hazard Management at Airports

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, February 9, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on using a risk-based safety management system (SMS) to proactively managewildlife near an airport. The presence of wildlife near airports is a safety issue and carries with it growing economic losses in the aviation industry. This webinar described an SMS approach to wildlife hazard management (WHM). The panelists also discussed the Wildlife Hazard Management Risk Assessment Tool (WHaMRAT) model that enables users to determine an airport’s overall aggregate wildlife risk score.

This webinar provided 1.5 Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives. This webinar was approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.

Here are the slides from the presentations.


Webinar Presenters

• Russ Defusco, BASH Inc.
• Edward Unangst, TEWS Inc.
• Joanne Landry, Landry Consultants

Moderated by: Julie Schreacke, American Airlines

Webinar Outline

1. ACRP Report 145: Applying a SMS Approach to Wildlife Hazard Management
2. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will able to:

• Identify how to integrate wildlife management programs into their overall SMS
• Discuss how the WHaMRAT allows users to objectively measure and track progress in their wildlife management programs within the context of their SMS

Registration Information

This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.

Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives

The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact accreditation@aaae.org.

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar was approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.