Developing and Sustaining an Effective Safety Culture

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 maximizing business performance.
A successful 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 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 behavioral acts and omissions as prime causes of accidents and adverse events
• Understand how to develop a step-by-step safety cultural improvement programmed within your own organisation
• Develop skills for identifying, evaluating and implementing cost effective solutions for influencing behavioral change

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

Behavioral 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

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