Baines Simmons

Baines Simmons is a company that advises and trains organizations on aviation safety. It specializes in aviation regulations, risk, compliance and safety management. It works with civil and defence clients. The company says its clients include businesses, armed forces, governments and regulators in all sectors of aviation around the world.

Its work comes in three parts: consulting, training and managed services. The company says it uses a practical, results-driven method. It aims to improve safety performance and business performance together. It wants to protect lives, assets, profit and reputation. It also aims to reduce risk, rework, error, inefficiency and incidents.

Consulting topics include safety management and performance, and regulation approval and implementation. There is also help on competence development pathways and outsourced cabin crew training. A separate service supports uncrewed aviation. Its specialists help commercial and defence drone operators with rules such as SORA and PDRA, and with national frameworks. They also help build safety management systems and gain the permits needed to fly.

Training courses cover many subjects. They include human performance and threat and error management, quality and compliance monitoring, and safety risk management. Others cover root cause analysis and practical skills for investigators using MEDA. There are courses on UK CAA and EASA air operations rules and on airworthiness. One course explains Part-CAMO, a set of rules for managing continuing airworthiness.

The company has also launched its own Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation, known as a CAMO, within its operations group. Its experts also publish articles. Topics include safety management in design organisations and lessons from 25 years of aerospace safety for uncrewed aviation.

The site includes comments from course attendees who praise the trainers. It also quotes a safety vice president at KLM, who says the company has a long business relationship with Baines Simmons. KLM credits its work with helping improve its safety management system.

Baines Simmons holds ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 27001 for information security and Cyber Essentials Plus for cyber resilience. The website has contact forms for training and consulting enquiries.