UAS Operations and Safety
Build the safety foundation before you fly, supervise or manage any unmanned aircraft operation.
The foundation level of the Apexis UAS Capability Development Programme — safe UAS operations, supervision and programme oversight.
For anyone who operates, supervises, procures or manages unmanned aircraft activity, and the entry point to every specialist stream that follows.
Pathway levelFoundation
DeliveryClassroom, practical & hands-on UAS
AppliedScenario & simulation exercises
AccreditationTEEX · Texas A&M
Blended delivery — structured classroom and theoretical instruction · applied practical exercises · hands-on UAS operational activities · scenario-based learning · simulation exercises through the Apexis Simulation Centre.
Walk out able to actually help.
You learn what a UAS is, how its core systems fit together and where common configurations reach their limits.
You identify the operational, environmental and flight-related risks around a site and judge whether a flight should proceed.
You apply UAS technology safely within industrial and energy operations — pre-flight checks, controlled flight, and disciplined landing, abort or emergency recovery.
You align UAS activity with existing HSSE and operational controls, and supervise or oversee a UAS programme with confidence.
Built around the moment it matters.
Course Orientation and the UAS Safety Mindset
Sets the scene for the course and explains why safety is the first priority in every UAS operation.
UAS Fundamentals
Defines what makes up an unmanned aircraft system, its core components and the capabilities and limits of common configurations.
Regulatory Awareness
Covers common aviation principles, categories and licensing, airspace restrictions and jurisdiction-specific requirements.
Operational Safety: Hazards and Risk
Shows how to identify hazards, run site surveys and account for environmental and external threats when choosing a flight area.
Pre-Flight Procedures
Walks through inspecting the aircraft and equipment, configuring controls and systems, and briefing the crew before take-off.
Flight Safety
Guides you through take-off and control, maintaining safe flight, and sound landing or abort decisions.
Emergency Procedures
Prepares you for lost systems and signals, in-flight emergencies and conflicts, and emergency landing and recovery.
Lithium Battery Safety
Explains battery risks and safe practice for charging, storage, transport, inspection, damage and disposal.
Professional Operations and Continuing Competency
Addresses records and reporting, data, privacy and ethics, and how to sustain competency over time.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Structured classroom and theoretical instruction
- Applied practical exercises
- Hands-on UAS operational activities
- Scenario-based learning
- Simulation exercises through the Apexis Simulation Centre
- Nine guided modules, including lithium battery safety and emergency procedures
- Entry point to the operator and specialist UAS streams
- Internationally accredited TEEX certification