Developing & Effective Safety Culture
Course Code: HS03
Course Objective
- 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
Target Audience
This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- All line managers and supervisors
- Production and process engineers
- Maintenance personnel
- HSE personnel
- Human resources professionals
- Any other personnel who are involved in planning and implementing the organisation’s HSE management system
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
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