Improving OHS Performance- Building a Safety Culture

Course details

Analyse how creating a culture that promotes safety can benefit organisations; resulting in lower accident rates, reduced turnover and absenteeism, and higher productivity. Discover the importance of engaging and influencing managers and employees in practices which enable a safe and healthy workplace.

Course Outline

This course covers the following topics:

• Identifying and evaluating your organization’s existing safety culture
• Planning, implementing and sustaining a safety culture throughout your organisation
• Safety culture, behaviour and TQM models
• How to measure and monitor a safety culture

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Evaluate, measure and monitor an organization’s safety culture
• Identify obstacles and drivers to change
• Develop a strategic map that describes major processes and milestones that need to be met in order to successfully implement a change process for safety and health

Who should attend?

This course is ideal for general managers, human resource managers, OHS system managers and employee representatives.