Course Description

INTRODUCTION

This highly-interactive Developing and Sustaining an Effective Safety Culture training course will give you the skills and confidence to develop and sustain an effective safety culture that will enable your business to flourish. This  training 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 maximising business performance.

A successful safety culture is widely accepted as being the essential component of an organisation’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 training course will provide you with the all the necessary tools to create your own unique and effective safety culture that will empower your workforce.

Objectives

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

The benefit of this course

Understanding the integrated approach of safety culture

Be able to assess the safety culture of the organisation

Receiving practical methods to improve safety behaviour

Appreciating the importance of human factors

Developing a SMS based on safety culture principles

Professional Development of Staff

Improved Communications

Improved Safety Behaviour

Reduction in Incidents

Course Outline

DAY 1

Safety Culture and Leadership

Safety Culture and Safety Climate

The Influence Factor

Leadership and Culture

Improving Safety Performance

Historical Review

DAY 2

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

DAY 3

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

DAY 4

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

DAY 5

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

Course Review