Developing and Sustaining an Effective Safety Culture
Health, Safety, Environment & Security
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