Safety Leadership and Safety Culture Course

• Understand what organisational health and safety entail and why they are important
• Learn how to relate safety to the core morals of your company
• Understand why basic compliance is not enough and how to evolve from a compliance culture to a safety culture
• Evaluate the safety protocols in your company objectively
• Develop your skills to coach safety behaviours and gauge performance
• Determine how to develop a “leadership presence” based on actions rather than words
• Study how to tailor your safety message to appeal to any communication style
• Practice how to lead and facilitate safety meetings that actually raise safety awareness

CONTENT

Know How to Identify Key Safety Tasks for Employees

• Preplanning for job activities
• Evaluating for safety (environment)
• Inspecting for hazards (risk recognition)
• Coaching employees (positive vs. negative reinforcement)
• Properly motivating employees

Understanding Safety Culture

• Principles of safety culture
• Reporting culture
• Safety culture vs. illusion of safety
• The human element

Understand The Dynamics of Supervision

• Understanding workers
• Theory X vs. Theory Y employees
• Right brain vs. left brain employees

Identify Key Safety Tasks for Supervisors

• Investigating for causes
• Inspecting for hazards (risk recognition)
• Coaching employees (positive vs. negative reinforcement)
• Properly motivating employees

Human Error

• The problem of human fallibility
• Human error approaches (people vs. systems)
• Human factors engineering methods
• Error management control measures

Understanding Risk

• Defining risk vs hazard
• Risk myths
• Gambling and risk commonalities
• Achieving a “zero risk” culture

Identifying Key Safety Tasks for Safety Professionals

• Investigating for Causes
• Inspecting for Hazards
• Coaching
• Motivating

Practical Application of Standards

• 1910 vs. 1926
• Vertical and Horizontal Standards
• Understanding Haz Identification
• Understanding Recordkeeping

OSHA Inspection Process

• Do’s and Don’ts
• Pre-Inspection
• During Inspection
• Post Inspection

Laws, Regulations, & Standards

• State vs. Federal OSHA
• Other Laws, Regulations, & Codes
• Fundamental Concepts & Terms
• Workers Compensation

FOR WHOM

• Safety-team members
• Safety officers
• Safety-committee members
• Team leads
• Supervisors
• Managers
• Directors
• VPs of operations, production maintenance, EHS, engineering, and reliability
• Those in leadership roles who are also tasked with leading a safety culture
• Leadership from the corporate side such as HR, Finance, etc.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.