The Safety Leader Workshop

Changing the way you think about safety

Breaking through the plateau and achieving zero harm can not be achieved simply through legislative compliance or management systems. Safety excellence can only be achieved when there is a safety culture where safety is valued by every member of the organisation.

Leaders create culture by what they do, how they behave and what they get involved in. The safety behaviours of workers are influenced by the behaviours and attitudes of their leaders.

The Safety Leader program provides leaders with powerful tools to achieve significant and sustained cultural change in their organisation. This is not a seminar which simply explores leadership and change theory, instead, this interactive and confronting program will challenge leaders' own safety attitudes and thinking and empower them to make a change in the way they think about and lead safety.

Prior to the workshop

Each participant will complete a safety attitude survey to assist them to better understand their own safety attitudes.

Learning outcomes

• understand the costs of workplace incidents and experience permanent disability
• know how leadership behaviours influence behavioural and cultural change
• understand incident causation theory and human error models
• explore how safety attitudes and safety thinking influence behaviours
• control at risk behaviours and reinforce safe behaviours
• learn how the world's best organisations are leading safety
• build powerful safety leadership behaviours
• create an effective and sustained safety culture
• develop safety communication skills
• influence behaviour and attitude change
• develop a Personal Safety Leadership Plan
• effectively sell the safety message
• visualise desired safety culture

Delivery style

This program is highly interactive, includes a number of practical activities and incorporates adult learning principles. The program provides leaders with a powerful set of tools to build an effective and sustainable safety culture.

The course is offered both in-house and on the public schedule. The advantage of the in-house course is that it can be tailored specifically to the systems and culture of your organisation. The advantage of the public course is that participants can benchmark and share ideas with other organisations and can develop invaluable network contacts.

Testimonials

"Great presenter with an up-to-date perspective on effective leadership driving safe workplace - has stimulated me to look at some things differently."

"A lively presenter who knew his area and hammered his main point home."

"Very good presentation - focussed on the reality of creating a culture and not preventing litigation."

"Thanks for the encouragement in giving strategies in terms of safety culture."

Further information

For further details about the Safety Leader program, view the Safety Leadership brochure (PDF) or contact Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland by calling 07 3842 2244, email training@cciq.com.au or contact your nearest regional office.