Developing and Sustaining an Effective Safety Culture

Introduction:

An efficient safety culture is essential for the successful development and operation of an organization’s safety management system.

This Course is designed to prevent catastrophic incidents by ensuring that every employee, regardless of position, follows safety requirements and receives intervention when any safety violations or hazards are detected.

By fostering personal ownership and involvement, this course helps develop a strong safety culture and effective safety leadership throughout the organization.

Objectives:

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

• Understand internal and external human factors and their relationship to safety within the organization.
• Familiarize themselves with the elements of a safety management system and their purposes.
• Recognize that behavior and inaction are critical factors in causing accidents and disasters.
• Explain how each sequential component of the safety culture improvement program is built and implemented within their organization.
• Conduct an HSE cultural survey to assess the organization's position in terms of cultural evolution and the effectiveness of its HSE practices.
• Develop competencies for diagnosing, analyzing, and creating action plans to improve behavioral changes and safety practices.

Training Methodology:

• Interactive lectures
• Case studies
• Group discussions
• Hands-on workshops
• Role plays
• Behavioral safety training
• Peer review

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Introduction to Safety Culture

• Definition of safety culture and safety climate
• Enhancing safety performance levels
• Behavioral, organizational, job, and personal factors
• Historical review of safety culture

Unit 2: Safety Management Systems

• Components of safety management systems and safety culture elements
• Features and yardsticks of an effective safety management system
• Mechanical and socio-technical models of SMS
• Risk, risk perception, and human error
• Stress management in safety systems

Unit 3: HSE Model for Safety Culture

• Identifying problem areas in the organization
• Understanding dependent, independent, and interdependent cultures
• Implementing cultural change
• HSE cultural change model and intervention strategies
• Success factors, barriers, and milestones/KPIs
• Attitude questionnaires

Unit 4: Behavioral Safety

• Exploring the relationship between safety culture and behavioral safety
• Theories by Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Geller, and Maslow
• ABC analysis: Antecedents, behavior, consequences
• Natural penalties and reasons behind actions and opinions

Unit 5: Measuring Safety Culture

• Assessing the maturity level of safety culture
• Analyzing questionnaire responses
• Creating a paradigm shift in safety culture
• Managing personnel perceptions of safety
• Formulating effective safety culture questionnaires