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Introduction

An effective safety culture is widely accepted as being the essential component of in the successful development and implementation of an organisation’s safety management system. Preventing major accidents is about ensuring that everyone, regardless of position, follows safety procedures and safe practices - by always intervening when unsafe behaviours or conditions are observed. A safety culture improvement process approach which actively engages everyone through personal responsibility is seen as the way forward.

In this seminar you will learn:

The impact of an effective safety culture on achieving good safety management
How to establish a safety culture improvement processes and identify behavioural change improvement opportunities
The importance of actively caring
How to assess the safety culture of the organization
About Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Geller & Maslow

Objectives

Participants attending the programme will:

Have a clear understanding of human factors and their application to their organisation’s current safety cultural status
Be familiar with elements of safety management systems and their purpose
Appreciate the consequences of behavioural acts and omissions as prime causes of accidents and emergency situations
Be able to develop a step-by-step safety cultural improvement programme within their own organisation
Develop an appreciation of carrying out an HSE cultural positional assessment
Develop skills for identifying, evaluating and reconciling solutions for influencing behavioural change improvement measures

Training Methodology

Participants will learn by active participation during the programme through the use of exercises, case studies and open discussion forums. Videos shown will encourage further discussions and delegates are encouraged to bring forth experiences and problems from their own organisations. The programme will be run using power point slide, copies of which will be distributed both in hard and soft copies.

Organisational Impact

Professional development of staff
Improved communications
Improved safety behaviour
Reduction in incidents
Practical steps for changing culture
Leaders better equipped to face adversity of incidents head on

Personal Impact

Understand the integrated approach of Safety Culture
Be able to assess the safety culture of the organisation
Practical methods to improve safety behaviour
Appreciate the needs, drives and motivation of staff
Develop a SMS based on safety culture principles
The power of reinforcement and recognition

SEMINAR OUTLINE

DAY 1 : Introduction to Safety Culture

Safety culture and safety climate
Improving safety performance
Behaviour and Culture
- Organisation factors
- Job factors
- Personal factors
Historical review
Case study

DAY 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
Case Study “Mersin Refinery”

DAY 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

DAY 4 : Behavioural Safety

Safety culture and behavioural safety
Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Geller, Maslow
Natural penalties and consequences
ABC analysis
- Antecedents
- Behaviour
- Consequences
What drives behaviour
Natural penalties and consequences

DAY 5 : Assessing the Safety Culture

Establishing the current status of a safety culture
Results of questionnaires
Case studies from different organisations
Step change in safety
Managing people and their attitude to safety
Developing questionnaires
Personal action plans
Course review

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