An effective safety culture is widely accepted as being the 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 a culture can either be supportive and stimulating or, if not carefully developed, highly debilitating and destructive.

This highly-interactive training course will give you the skills and confidence to develop and sustain an effective safety culture that will enable your business to flourish. The course 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.

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.

• 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
  • Information inputs and questionnaires
  • Case studies from different organisations
  • Managing people and their attitude to safety
  • Developing questionnaires
  • Personal action plans