Developing an Effective Safety Culture

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.

CONTENT

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

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”

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

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

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

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.