Training and Certification: Strategic Operations

Current Strategic Operations:

SET DEPARTMENTAL STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS

The AVSEC Training and Certification department is embarking on an awareness and advocacy campaign to conscientise all prospective and existing aviation security and awareness training organisations, screener employers and screening organisations as well as members of the South African flying public at large about the upcoming Regulations and Technical Standards (Part 109/ 110).

Future Strategic Operations:

Once the regulations have been approved by the Minister of Transport, workshops will be run across all provinces to familiarize prospective training organisations and screeners about the contents thereof, as well as implementation methods and strategies.

With the promulgation of the abovementioned legislation, the following shall apply:

Training

· Training organisations must apply to the SACAA to be approved to implement Aviation Security and Aviation Security Awareness Training.

· Training implemented will have to be in line with the regulations promulgated and the technical standards (Part 109), on how the training should be conducted.

· No training organisation shall be allowed to conduct aviation security training except under the requirements and in accordance with the provisions stipulated in the regulations, Part 109 and associated Technical Standards.

Certification

· All screeners operating at airports, airlines, and cargo agencies shall be required to write SACAA set examinations and pass as a requirement for certification.

· No person shall act as a screener at airports, airlines and regulated agents unless such a person is the holder of a valid screener certification issued by the Commissioner in terms of Part 110 regulation and associated technical standards.

· In future all screeners shall be trained by the AVSEC Training Organisations of the SACAA as approved in terms of Part 109 of the Civil Aviation Regulations and associated technical standards.

The stakeholders, the public and all parties operating and interested to operate within the aviation security industry, will be expected to comply and conform to the upcoming regulations and technical standards (Part 109 and 110). These regulations prescribe what is required with regard to training and certification and how implementation should take place.

All prospective and existing training organisations wishing to implement the Aviation Security Training are therefore expected to take into consideration the regulations and technical standards (Part 109 and 110) which explain in detail how they will be expected to implement this training.