Leading to Safety // Leadership Programs
Learning Objectives
This hands-on one day workshop is designed to provide leaders with the skills, tools and mindset to lead in a safe work environment.
By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
- Define the case for safety from multiple stakeholders
- Describe the attributes of a safety culture and safety climate
- Assess their site against research-based safety culture attributes
- Articulate the role of leaders at different levels in creating culture and climate
- Evaluate various scenarios and determine the impact of the leader’s behavior
- Examine the value of employee ownership of safety
- Explore individual leadership practices in communicating top-down messages about the organization’s commitment to a safety culture
- Analyze the “broken window” theory and its applicability to safety
- Apply the SAID model to a safety conversation
- Use the Stop-Focus-Go model to improve conservative decision making in all situations
- Identify different methods to motivate employees to behave safely
- Debunk common excuses managers give for not leading safety
PROGRAM FLOW
KEY CONTENT AREAS
Welcome
- Introduction
- Learning objectives
- ZOOM activity – we are in this together
- Case for safety – multiple stakeholders
- Why they care
Safety Culture vs. Safety Climate
- Definitions
- Safety culture assessment
- Bad ways to get there – enforcement or blame leadership/others
Building Trust
- Technical, personal and ethical
- Personal trust importance and value
Owners vs. Renters
- Definition
- Scenarios – what is being created?
Motivation
- Intrinsic motivation
- Scenarios – tapping into intrinsic
Organizational Communication
- Principles – TLC
- Whisper Down the Lane activity
- Buttermilk activity
- Three reasons it fails
Accountability
- Levels of accountability
- Life saving rules, cardinal rules, etc.
One-on-One Communication
- Broken Window theory
- Examples within the company
- SAID model application
Conservative Decision Making
- Stop-Focus-Go
- Scenarios – assumptions and beliefs
Why We Fail to Lead to Safety
- Devil’s advocate
- Common excuses and responses