EASA Part-145 Safety Training including Human Factors – Continuation

This is the continuation course in safety training including human factors for EASA and UK Part-145 staff who already hold an initial certificate. It is a second pass through the syllabus in GM1 145.A.30(e), taken inside the 2-year period that 145.A.35(d) sets for certifying staff and support staff. The course is online and self-paced, in English, and gives you a downloadable completion certificate at the end.

Who must take this course (and why)

Take this course if you hold an initial safety training including human factors certificate and your organisation’s training programme says you are due again. If you hold no initial certificate — a new joiner, a returner after a long gap, someone moving into Part-145 from another Annex — take the Initial course instead.

The population is the same one AMC4 145.A.30(e)(a) describes for initial training: nominated persons, line managers and supervisors; certifying staff, support staff and mechanics; planners, engineers and technical records staff; compliance monitoring and safety management staff; specialised services staff; stores and purchasing staff; and ground equipment operators. The AMC says those personnel should receive both initial and further safety training appropriate to their responsibilities. The formal 2-year obligation in 145.A.35(d) names certifying staff and support staff, which is why quality departments usually put everyone on the same cycle rather than tracking two.

What the regulation actually requires

Point 145.A.35(d) requires the organisation to ensure that all certifying staff and support staff receive sufficient training in each 2-year period so that their knowledge of relevant technologies, organisation procedures and safety management, including human factor issues, is up to date. Point 145.A.35(e) requires a programme for that training, with a procedure to show compliance. The safety side of the same duty is described in AMC4 145.A.30(e)(c): further safety training should keep staff current in safety management principles and human factors, and should also collect feedback on safety and human factors issues.

Two details from that AMC matter to a compliance monitoring manager. First, the training should be of an appropriate duration in each 2-year period, judged against compliance monitoring audit findings and other internal and external sources — so duration is set by your risk picture, not by a supplier. Second, feedback from the training should be formally reported by the trainers through the internal safety reporting scheme required by 145.A.202.

What the course covers

The lessons match the GM1 145.A.30(e) topics, the same list as the initial course, after a free preview:

• Introduction to safety management and human factors — topic 1
• Safety risk management — topic 1a: hazard identification, risk assessment, mitigation and effectiveness
• Safety culture and organisational factors — topic 2
• Human error — topic 3: error models, error types in maintenance, violations, error management
• Human performance and limitations — topic 4: attention, situational awareness, memory, stress, workload, fatigue
• Environment — topic 5: time pressure, shift work, noise, illumination, distractions and interruptions
• Procedures, information, tools and practices — topic 6, including error-capturing methods on critical maintenance tasks
• Communication — topic 7: shift and task handover, dissemination of information
• Teamwork — topic 8; Professionalism and integrity — topic 9
• Organisational safety programme — topic 10: safety policy, just culture, internal reporting, investigation and feedback

We are deliberate about this: the course does not claim to contain your organisation’s occurrences or audit findings. Those belong to your safety manager, and the AMC expects them to be added around the syllabus.

Initial vs continuation — which one do you need?

Continuation, if you already hold an initial certificate for safety training including human factors and you are inside the cycle. Initial, if you do not. There is no crediting rule that lets a continuation course stand in for a missing initial one — AMC4 145.A.30(e)(b) expects initial safety training before commencing the actual job function, with a limited allowance for new directly employed staff working under direct supervision to complete it within 6 months of joining.

If you hold a Part-66 licence and passed Module 9, that is still not the same thing. Module 9 is basic knowledge for a licence under 66.A.25 and Appendix I to Part-66; the training here discharges the organisation’s duty under 145.A.30(e) and the 2-year requirement in 145.A.35(d). Holding one does not close the other.

Exam, certificate and how organisations accept it

On completion you download a certificate issued by MOST.AERO, the training brand of AEROVISER OÜ in Estonia, showing the course name and the date you finished. File it in the personnel record required by 145.A.55(d) — records of qualifications, training and experience, kept while the person is employed and for at least three years afterwards.

The certificate records completion. It does not carry an expiry date invented by us, because the interval is the regulation’s: 145.A.35(d) works on a 2-year period and your approved training programme applies it. Acceptance is decided the same way — AMC4 145.A.30(e)(d) allows safety training by the maintenance organisation itself, by independent trainers, or by any training organisation acceptable to the competent authority, and point (e) requires the procedures to be in the MOE. MOST.AERO is an independent provider and is not a Part-147 approved organisation; Part-147 approval governs Part-66 basic and type training, not this.

Price, access and how to enrol

The continuation course is €49 for one seat, paid once, against €89 for the initial course. It is online and self-paced, so you start when you enrol and finish at your own pace, in English.

Use the enrol button on this page; it opens the course on the MOST.AERO store, where you check out. MOST.AERO is a brand of AEROVISER OÜ, Estonia. For a group on the same due date, email info@most.aero with the headcount and the month you need them completed by, and we will set up seats and one invoice. If your compliance monitoring manager wants the lesson-to-syllabus mapping against GM1 145.A.30(e) for the training file, ask and we will send it.

Related guides

• How often is human factors training required in an EASA Part-145 organisation? — where the 2-year period comes from, who it binds, and how to set the due date defensibly.
• Is online human factors, fuel tank safety and EWIS training accepted by EASA and the UK CAA? — the AMC wording on delivery methods and providers.
• UK Part-145 SMS and safety training including human factors — the UK text after SI 2023/588 and what the CAA expects to see documented.

If you are unsure whether a person is due initial or continuation training, the first guide walks the decision from the clause rather than from the calendar.