EASA Part-145 Safety Training including Human Factors – Initial

Initial safety training including human factors is the course an EASA or UK Part-145 organisation gives people before they start work, so that the competency required by 145.A.30(e) includes an understanding of safety management principles and human performance. This online version follows the syllabus in GM1 145.A.30(e) topic by topic, in eleven lessons. It is self-paced, in English, and leaves you with a completion certificate to download.

Who must take this course (and why)

The scope is much wider than certifying staff. AMC4 145.A.30(e)(a) says all maintenance organisation personnel should be assessed for the need to receive initial safety training, and that everyone involved in delivering the basic maintenance service of the organisation should receive it. The AMC then names them: nominated persons, line managers and supervisors; certifying staff, support staff and mechanics; technical support personnel such as planners, engineers and technical records staff; people involved in compliance monitoring or safety management processes; specialised services staff; stores and purchasing staff; and ground equipment operators.

That list is worth reading against your own org chart, because stores, purchasing and ground equipment are the three groups most often missed. The underlying rule is 145.A.30(e): the organisation must establish and control the competency of personnel involved in maintenance, airworthiness reviews, safety management and compliance monitoring, and that competency must include an understanding of safety management principles, including human factors and human performance issues, appropriate to the person’s function and responsibilities.

What the regulation actually requires

Three points do the work. Point 145.A.30(e) is the obligation itself, and it is written as a competency duty, not a course requirement — the standard is one agreed with the competent authority. AMC1 145.A.30(e) explains how competency is assessed, and item 3 of its list states that all staff should be able to demonstrate an understanding of safety management principles including human factors related to their job function, and be trained as per AMC4 145.A.30(e).

AMC4 145.A.30(e) is the training AMC. It sets the population, says initial safety training should cover all the topics of the syllabus in GM1 145.A.30(e) either as a dedicated course or integrated into other training, allows the syllabus to be adjusted for the nature of the organisation and of each job function, and requires the safety training procedures to be specified in the MOE. GM1 145.A.30(e) is the syllabus itself. Completion is then a personnel record under 145.A.55(d).

What the course covers

One lesson per GM1 145.A.30(e) topic, after a free preview lesson:

• Introduction to safety management and human factors — topic 1, including why the subject exists, statistics and incidents
• Safety risk management — topic 1a: hazard identification, risk assessment, mitigation, effectiveness
• Safety culture and organisational factors — topic 2: justness and trust, commitment, adaptability, awareness, behaviour, information
• Human error — topic 3: error models, error types in maintenance tasks, violations, implications, error management
• Human performance and limitations — topic 4: vision, hearing, information processing, attention, situational awareness, memory, motivation, fitness, stress, workload, fatigue, and the effect of alcohol, medication and drugs
• Environment — topic 5: peer pressure, time pressure, shift work, noise, illumination, climate, distractions and interruptions
• Procedures, information, tools and practices — topic 6, including critical maintenance tasks and error-capturing methods
• Communication — topic 7: shift and task handover, dissemination of information, cultural differences
• Teamwork — topic 8; Professionalism and integrity — topic 9
• Organisational safety programme — topic 10: safety policy and just culture, internal safety reporting, investigation, action, feedback

Initial vs continuation — which one do you need?

Take this initial course if you have no previous safety training including human factors certificate, or if you are new to a Part-145 organisation. Take the Continuation course instead if you already hold an initial certificate and are inside your organisation’s cycle for the next round.

The interval comes from the regulation, not from us. Point 145.A.35(d) requires the organisation to ensure 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, stays current. AMC4 145.A.30(e)(c) says further safety training should be of an appropriate duration in each 2-year period, judged against compliance monitoring audit findings and other internal and external information on safety and human factors. Your approved training programme decides the exact due date.

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, naming the course and the completion date. It goes into the personnel record your organisation keeps under 145.A.55(d), which must be retained while the person works there and for at least three years after they leave.

Acceptance is your organisation’s decision, and the regulation says so plainly. AMC4 145.A.30(e)(d) allows safety training to be conducted by the maintenance organisation itself, by independent trainers, or by any training organisation acceptable to the competent authority, and point (e) requires the safety training procedures to be set out in the MOE. MOST.AERO is an independent training provider, not a Part-147 approved organisation, and Part-147 approval is not the test here — that approval governs Part-66 basic and type training and the licence examinations under 66.A.25(b). Before buying for a department, check what your MOE training chapter says about external and online providers.

Price, access and how to enrol

The course is €89 for one seat, paid once. It is online and self-paced: you start as soon as you enrol and work through the eleven lessons in your own time. Content is in English. The Welcome lesson is a free preview, so you can see how deep each topic goes before you pay.

The enrol button on this page opens the course on the MOST.AERO store, where you pay by card at checkout. The invoicing entity is AEROVISER OÜ, Estonia. If you are training a team, email info@most.aero with the headcount and we will arrange seats and a single invoice rather than making everyone buy separately. If your compliance monitoring manager wants the syllabus mapping against GM1 145.A.30(e) before approving the purchase, ask and we will send the topic-by-topic list.

Related guides

• Is online human factors, fuel tank safety and EWIS training accepted by EASA and the UK CAA? — the AMC wording on who may deliver training, and where a classroom is still expected.
• How often is human factors training required in an EASA Part-145 organisation? — the 2-year period in 145.A.35(d), who it binds, and how organisations set the due date.
• UK Part-145 SMS and safety training including human factors — what SI 2023/588 changed in the UK text and what the CAA looks for in the MOE.

Start with the second guide if what you actually need to know is when your staff are next due.