An effective safety culture is vital for any organization’s safety management system. Just as individuals have personalities, organizations have unique cultures. These cultures can be either supportive and encouraging or, if neglected, can become harmful and destructive.
This highly interactive training course at will equip you with the skills and confidence needed to foster and maintain a strong safety culture, allowing your business to thrive. Participants will learn a unique combination of proven management techniques and practical strategies to establish a sustainable culture that significantly enhances business performance.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Who should attend?
Safety professionals who want to promote greater awareness and acceptance of safety in their workplace.
Anyone working in a high-risk industry who wants to gain a general understanding of safety.
Team leaders or workers exposed to potential hazards who want to improve their own knowledge of safety practices.
How attendees will benefit?
After completion of the course, delegates will be able to:
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 behavioural acts and omissions as prime causes of accidents and adverse events
Understand how to develop a step-by-step safety cultural improvement programme within your own organisation
Develop skills for identifying, evaluating and implementing cost effective solutions for influencing behavioural change.
Course Outline
Safety Culture and Leadership
Safety culture and safety climate
The influence factor
Leadership and culture
Improving safety performance
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
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
Behavioural Safety
Safety culture and behavioural safety
Human factors
Negative and positive dimensions
Taylor, Herzberg, McGregor and Maslow
ABC analysis (antecedents, behaviour and consequences)
What drives behaviour
Natural penalties and consequences
Assessing the Safety Culture
Establishing the current status of a safety culture