Developing an Effective Safety Culture

Introduction:

This training program is designed to cultivate a workplace environment where safety is prioritized and ingrained into every aspect of organizational culture. It  equips participants with the knowledge and tools necessary to create a culture that enhances both employee well-being and organizational performance.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the human factors and their application to their organization’s current safety cultural status.

• Learn how to be familiar with elements of safety management systems and their purpose.

• Appreciate the consequences of behavioral acts and omissions as prime causes of accidents and emergencies.

• Develop a step-by-step safety cultural improvement program within their organization.

• Develop an appreciation of carrying out an HSE cultural positional assessment.

• Develop skills for identifying, evaluating, and reconciling solutions for influencing behavioral change improvement measures.

Targeted Audience:

• All Line Managers and Supervisors.

• Production and Process Engineers.

• Maintenance Personnel.

• HSE Personnel.

• Human Resources Professionals.

• Personnel involved in planning and implementing the organization’s HSE management system.

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Introduction to Safety Culture:

• Safety culture and safety climate.

• Improving safety performance.

• Behavior and Culture.

• Organization factors.

• Job factors.

• Personal factors.

• Historical review.

Unit 2:

Safety Management Systems:

• Safety management systems framework and safety culture factors.

• Essential safety management system components.

• Developing an effective safety management system.

• Mechanical Model of SMS.

• Socio-Technical Model of SMS.

• More safety culture factors, Risk and risk perceptions.

• Human error, Stress.

Unit 3:

HSE Model for Safety Culture:

• Identifying problem areas.

• Dependant, Independent, and Interdependent Cultures.

• Planning for change, HSE cultural change model.

• How to intervene.

• Key Performance indicators.

• Success factors and barriers.

• Attitude Questionnaires.

Unit 4:

Behavioural Safety:

• Safety culture and behavioral safety.

• Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Geller, Maslow.

• Natural penalties and consequences.

• ABC analysis, Antecedents, Behavior, Consequences.

• What drives behavior.

• Natural penalties and consequences.

Unit 5:

Assessing The Safety Culture:

• Establishing the current status of a safety culture.

• Results of questionnaires.

• A step-change in safety.

• Managing people and their attitude to safety.

• Developing questionnaires.

• Personal action plans.