Thomas Hallström, Safety Manager at Lund University’s Department of Aviation and Aeronautical Sciences, leads a session on building safety intelligence for unmanned aviation while aligning with manned operations. Get an operational framing to inspect your environment without solutions. Cover safety intelligence across training, operations, and research; how manned-flight safety management practices translate to UAS; the culture shift that treats every remote pilot as part of the aviation system; and the collaboration model linking universities, ATC, and aerodromes. Scan the regulatory landscape, reporting realities, and the UAS incident data gap. The session outlines how a robust safety management system, standard procedures, checklists, hazard logging, and performance indicators create an organizational safety memory. See how documentation platforms centralize guidelines, version control, access, and distribution to keep procedures current and reachable. A live operational case shows simultaneous manned and unmanned activity on parallel runways under an approved framework, increasing flight hours and data while maintaining control. The future lens addresses autonomy, multi-drone supervision, and the responsibilities that follow.

What you’ll learn:

• Practical structure for evaluating your safety setup
• Clear checkpoints for culture, governance, and documentation
• A way to align unmanned and manned practices