Civil Aviation Security Awareness – Levels 13 and 14
This is an online initial training course for Civil Aviation Security Awareness - Levels 13 and 14.
The course content complies with the National Civil Aviation Security Training Program, approved by Regulation No 765/2021 of 17 August 2021.This course is suitable for initial and refresh training.
The course attendance, is subject to several criteria, namely:
- The trainee must be employed by an entity providing or supplying services in Airport Security Restricted Zones;
- The employer must formally request the trainee application to LASFORMAÇÃO;
- The employer must present to LASFORMAÇÃO a scan of its activity authorization document, from ANA Airports, of the respective activity in the national airport(s);
- The employer must submit to LASFORMAÇÃO an declaration or other document justifying the operational need of the training course for each trainee;
- The employer must provide to LASFORMAÇÃO a document (e.g., a declaration) attesting the successful completion of each trainee’s Personal Enquiry and its validity;
-The employer requires the future trainees to fill out a statement in which each trainee declares, under oath, that he/she will take individually the final exam of the Civil Aviation Security Awareness Training - Levels 13 and 14, without the support of third parties. This declaration must be signed and sent to LASFORMAÇÃO, before the beginning of the course.
It is mandatory to take refresh/update training every 3 years or, if the duties have not been performed for more than 6 months.
After successfully concluding the training, you can download your Certificate of Recognition (pdf format) directly to your computer and print a copy of it if necessary.
It takes approximately 4 hours to complete this course.
Note: Once purchased, you have 2 months to complete your course.
Note 1: If you wish to purchase a set of accesses for the Employees of your Organization, please contact us directly at centroformacao@las.pt so that we can provide you with an access package.
The Civil Aviation Security Awareness Training - Levels 13 and 14 aims to raise the awareness of the trainees to the importance of civil aviation security, the safeguarding and protection of facilities, equipment, people and goods, acting both at the level of prevention of acts of unlawful interference, and with eventual situations of risk or security threats. The training aims to meet the requirements established in the National Civil Aviation Security Training Programme, according to the course programme developed by the Department of Facilitation and Security, by delegation of ANSAC, the Portuguese National Civil Aviation Security Authority). Therefore, at the end of the course, the trainee must:
1. Know the legal requirements applicable to Civil Aviation Security;
2. Define what is an act of unlawful interference;
3. Identify the type of acts of unlawful interference against civil aviation, terrorist acts occurred in the past and current threats;
4. List the key elements for risk reduction in civil aviation;
5. Know the objectives and organization of aviation security in their working environment, including the obligations and responsibilities of persons implementing security controls;
6. Identify the controlled access areas of an airport;
7. Relate access codes to their respective areas;
8. Identify the characteristics of an access and identification card;
9. Use correctly the access and identification card;
10. Identify the main objective of the security control to security restricted areas, within an airport security system;
11. Employ correctly the recommendations for the submission to screening, in order to expedite its process;
12. Implement correctly the reactive measures, in case a vulnerability is identified;
13. Identify the procedures to be taken when an abandoned object is found;
14. Identify the procedures to be carried out in case of a tip-off, e.g. receipt of a bomb threat;
15. Fill in the correct bomb threat form;
16. React appropriately to security related incidents.
According to the National Civil Aviation Security Plan, the Course is intended for all persons who are not passengers and need unescorted access to airport security restricted areas. It is also addressed to all persons who need general security awareness and who do not have any equivalent or superior training in civil aviation security.
The training is structured on several levels according to the audience:
Level 13 - Training for persons who are neither passengers nor executing security controls but need unescorted access to security restricted areas;
Level 14 - Training for persons who require general security awareness training.
|
MODULE I – Security Background of the Civil Aviation |
|
|
Concepts of Security and unlawful interference act Types of unlawful interference acts History of unlawful interference acts Current Threats and Terrorism Concept Prevention |
|
|
MODULE II – Normative Reference Framework and Organization of Security |
|
|
Objective of Civil Aviation Security AVSEC Training System Competences of ANSAC Competencies of Entities and Trainers International Reference Entities - ICAO, ECAC, EU European Regulatory Framework - Framework Regulation, Implementing Regulation National Standards - PNSAC, PNCQSAC and PNFSAC |
|
|
MODULE III – Airport Security System |
|
|
Definitions Access Control Access Cards |
|
|
MODULE IV – Airport Access Control System |
|
|
National Civil Aviation Security Organization Security control, access control and screening Prohibited articles Passengers and cabin baggage |
|
|
MODULE V – Denunciation Procedure and Reactive
Security Measures |
|
|
Reactive measures Interpellation of persons Denouncement procedures Procedures for receiving bomb threat (other acts) |
|
| MODULE VI – Security Culture, Internal Threat and Radicalisation | |
Security Culture Insider Threat Radicalisation |
|
|
Duration Equivalent to |
4 hours |
Final examination consisting of 15 multiple-choice questions.
Duration: 15 min.
Minimum mark: 80%.
If the student fails the exam, he/she will automatically be given access to a 2nd attempt. This exam will have the same characteristics as the 1st attempt, but with a random exchange of questions. If the student fails the 2nd attempt of the exam he/she will have to repeat the entire course.