An effective safety culture is vital for any organization’s safety management system. Just as individuals have personalities, organizations have unique cultures. These cultures can be either supportive and encouraging or, if neglected, can become harmful and destructive.

This highly interactive training course at the British Academy For Training And Development will equip you with the skills and confidence needed to foster and maintain a strong safety culture, allowing your business to thrive. Participants will learn a unique combination of proven management techniques and practical strategies to establish a sustainable culture that significantly enhances 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