Course Objectives
Behavior-Based Safety
Course Methodology
The course is designed to be interactive and participatory and includes various pedagogical tools to enable participants to operate effectively and efficiently in a multi-functional environment. The course is built on four pedagogical pillars: concept learning (lectures and presentations), role playing (group exercises), experience sharing (round table discussions) and exposure to real world problems and policy choices confronting delegates.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:- Enhance your ability to effectively manage a safety and health program
- Develop skills in safety supervision, leadership and evaluation
- Identify and list safety and health training needs
- Assess and measure a safety and health culture
- Effectively measure a safety culture program after implementation
Target Audience
Safety officers and other safety professionals involved in developing, implementing and making safety an integral part of the overall organizational culture.
Target Competencies
- Health and safety management
- Planning and organizing
- Investigating and assessing
- Providing and receiving feedback
- Building rapport
- Analyzing and evaluating
- Leadership
Course Outline
- Characteristics of an Effective Safety Culture
- Does Management Commitment Make a Difference?
- Top Management Commitment and Employee Involvement
- Effective Communication
- Analyzing Incidents and Accidents
- Defining a Value System
- Why Do Safety Cultures Fail?
- Human Barriers to Safety, and Behavior-Based Intervention
- Behavior-Based Psychology
- The Complexity of People
- Sensation, Perception, and Perceived Risk
- Identifying Critical Behavior
- Behavioral Safety Analysis
- Intervening with Activators
- Intervening with Consequences
- Intervening as a Behavior-Change Agent
- Safety Supervision and Leadership
- Safety Responsibilities
- Identifying and Correcting Hazards
- Ensuring Safety Accountability
- Creating a Culture of Consequences
- Tough-Caring Leadership
- Journey to a Safety Culture
- Pathway to Safety Excellence
- Developing Goals and Objectives
- Identifying and Establishing Goals
- Conducting Self-Assessments and Benchmarking
- Change Analysis
- Actively Caring for Safety
- Understanding Actively Caring
- Psychology of Actively Caring
- Person-Based Approach to Actively Caring
- Increasing Actively Caring Behaviors
- Measuring the Safety Culture
- The Nature of All Safety Systems
- Assessment Techniques
- The Deming Cycle
- What should be Evaluated?
- Evaluation Tools
- Developing and Implementing the Action Plan