1. Safety Culture Development
SAFETY LEADERSHIP
Background
Leadership is simply defined as influencing others to behave in a certain way. This influencing can be positive and
rewarding to the business, it can be destructive and damage the business or it can be benign and either add to or damage
the business depending on the attitude and calibre of personnel. As everyone in an organisation influences people
through their behaviour, Safety Leadership is the influencing behaviour exhibited by all personnel.
Using Organisational Development Principles, Safety Culture Development works with organisations to build their Safety
Leadership capability through the following approaches
 Safety Leadership Summits
 Safety Leadership Workshops
 Safety Leadership Coaching
Safety Leadership Summits
Many organisations find that having a Safety Leadership Summit with senior personnel at corporate and/or operational
levels, helps them to move to a new level of safety management in their business. Safety Leadership Summits usually
include a 1-day event bookended by pre event preparation and post event follow up. The intent of the Safety Leadership
Summit is to
 Align what you do in your business with how you do your business.
 Commit to the organisation’s safety culture vision and values
 Develop and commit to Safety Culture development by identifying current business successes and short comings and
planning for improvement.
 Commit to leading the organisation to achieving the desired safety culture.
Safety Leadership Workshops
The fundamental principles that guide all of Safety Leadership workshops are our organisational alignment “Enabling
Vision to be Achieved (EVA)” and ‘Safety Integrity Systems” models. We then build your needs around these approaches.
Our workshops and facilitation style are based on Adult Leaning principles. You will find they are primarily experiential as
we believe that people learn best when have a personal experience.
Safety Leadership Coaching
The biggest challenge for any learning activity is transferring knowledge from the learning experience to the work. It is
estimated that only between 10 and 30% of what people learn is transferred back to work. Between 70-90% of the
training investment is wasted. Safety Culture Development always talks with clients about the transfer of leaning to the
worksite. In addition to workshop design and Action Planning, we recommend coaching that could take one or more of
the following approaches:
 Coaching of all personnel involved in the workshop
 Coaching of supervisors
 Coaching instead of having the workshop.
Follow-up activities centre on working closely, in teams or one on one, with participants to ensure initiatives are being
pursued and behaviour is actually changing. This approach not only addresses the broader organisational team aspects
(e.g. attendance at toolbox, safety, management meetings etc.) but also the more sensitive personal/interpersonal issues
that may be affecting the change process. This also provides us with an opportunity to understand more intimately the
dynamics of the particular workplace, and therefore provide more substantial recommendations for safety improvement.
For further information contact:
Trevor Strother
Tel +61400624593
Email trevor@safetyculturedevelopment.com.au
www.safetyculturedevelopment.com.au
Contact Details
Trevor Strother
Tel +61400624593
Email trevor@safetyculturedevelopment.com.au
www.safetyculturedevelopment.com.au