This course is intended for a business owner, manager or employee with responsibility for implementing safety initiatives, but may have limited safety and/or training experience.

Make safety the shared value of every employee.  Put safety behind every strategy, every decision, every operation, every action.

This course addresses practical approaches to forming strategies for a safety culture, leading in a safety culture, gaining employee involvement through safety contact and observation, and measuring the success of safety initiatives. All of this is done in the context of continuous improvement.

Training goals

• Recognize the four requirements for creating a positive safety culture: leadership, employee involvement, measurement systems, and a continuous improvement process.

• Recognize management’s role in leading and implementing a safety culture.

• Gain employee involvement through use of a safety observation and contact process that is focused on recognizing and reinforcing safe behaviors.

• Use measurement tools to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of your organization’s safety culture.

• Use continuous improvement to improve safety efforts.

• Build a positive safety culture by using the tips, techniques, and tools acquired in the training program.

What you'll learn:

• The Strategies for Creating a Safety Culture

• Leadership and Safety Culture

• Employee Involvement Through Safety Contact and Observation

• Measuring Program Success

• Continuous Improvement and Safety Culture

• Using Program Materials in Your Business

A Participant Guide containing reference materials, case studies and checklists is provided to each attendee.