Course Description
This highly-interactive training seminar will give you the skills and confidence to develop and sustain an effective safety culture that will enable your business to flourish. The seminar will provide delegates with a unique blend of proven management techniques and practical implementation to ensure a sustainable culture is achieved that will be a crucial aid to maximizing business performance.
An effective safety culture is widely accepted as being an essential component of an organization’s safety management system. Culture is to an organization as personality is to an individual in that each individual has one and each organization has one. A culture, just like a personality, is unique to each organization, however, culture can either be supportive and stimulating or, if not carefully developed, highly debilitating and destructive. This seminar will provide you with all the necessary tools to create your own unique and effective safety culture that will empower your workforce.
What Do Participants Learn?
At the end of this seminar, you will:
- Develop a clear understanding of human factors and their importance in developing an effective safety culture
- Appreciate the elements of safety management systems and their purpose
- Understand the consequences of behavioral acts and omissions as prime causes of accidents and adverse events
- Understand how to develop a step-by-step safety cultural improvement program within your own organization
- Develop skills for identifying, evaluating and implementing cost-effective solutions for influencing behavioral change
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- All line managers and supervisors
- Production and process engineers
- Maintenance personnel
- HSE personnel
- Human resources professionals
- Any other personnel who are involved in planning and implementing the organization’s HSE management system
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section Five
Safety Culture and Leadership
- Safety culture and safety climate
- The influence factor
- Leadership and culture
- Improving safety performance
- Historical review
Section Two
Safety Management Systems
- Safety management systems and safety culture factors
- Essential safety management system components
- Developing an effective safety management system
- Sustaining an effective safety management system
- Reasons for safety management system failure
- The true benefits of an effective safety management system
Section Three
HSE Model for Safety Culture
- Identifying problem areas
- Dependent, independent and interdependent cultures
- Planning for change
- HSE cultural change model
- How and when to intervene
- Key performance indicators
- Success factors and barriers
- Attitude questionnaires
Section Four
Behavioural Safety
- Safety culture and behavioral safety
- Human factors
- Negative and positive dimensions
- Taylor, Herzberg, McGregor, and Maslow
- ABC analysis (antecedents, behavior, and consequences)
- What drives behavior
- Natural penalties and consequences
Section Five
Assessing the Safety Culture
- Establishing the current status of a safety culture
- Information inputs and questionnaires
- Case studies from different organizations
- Managing people and their attitude to safety
- Developing questionnaires
- Personal action plans