COURSE OVERVIEW:

Leaders need to understand, in concrete terms, how safety leadership assures improvement. We know leadership is important to safety excellence generally, but what are the specific mechanisms that connect the leader to safety performance improvement? As a safety leader, you need to know what specific mechanisms produce results.

Leading with safety means that safety performance excellence “leads” the organisation to other kinds of performance excellence. It also stresses the importance of leadership to safety excellence. And it means that leaders who lead with safety establish themselves “as leaders” in a different, valuable, and interesting way.

Safety Leadership is defined as "The process of defining the desired state, setting up the team to succeed, and engaging in the discretionary efforts that drive the safety value," which broadly boils down to "engaging in and maintaining behaviours that help others achieve our safety goals".

The most important factor in predicting success of safety improvement initiatives, in any organisation, is the quality of leadership they were given and the organisational culture that resulted.

Effective safety leaders have a solid understanding of a set of core concepts. For those with operations backgrounds, these concepts have been learned from experience and are now intuitive. Leaders from other areas will find these essential concepts easy to grasp, but challenging to execute effectively. Understanding these core concepts is a pre-condition for creating excellence in the leadership of safety performance and provides a systematic way to think about the design of intervention strategies for improvement.

In this course we examine core concepts leaders need to understand to be effective safety leaders, including an Organisational Safety Model that provides a big-picture perspective. We also examine the individual safety leader’s personality and values, emotional commitment, and leadership style. In addition, addressing questions from the standpoint of the individual: what personal attributes are required to be an effective safety leader.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

·       What does organisational safety model mean?

·       How safety leadership assures improvement?

·       How leadership and culture influence the organisation’s safety enabling systems and organisational sustaining systems to reduce exposure to hazards in the Working Interface?

·       The primary importance of the working interface       

·       The relationship of exposure events to injury events

·       The necessity of leading indicators

·       Why enable safety systems?

·       The importance of sustaining safety systems

·       How leadership creates organisational culture and safety climate?

·       What motivates leaders to improve safety?     

·       What influences the behaviour of safety leaders?

·       How to sustain organisational change?  

·       The two critical elements for sustaining organisational change

·       The mechanisms and processes to create an organisational change

·       The importance of serious employee engagement during change

·       The safety leadership model

·       The personality, values, and emotional commitment of the safety leader

·       The measurement of the big five

·       Applications of big five research to safety leadership

·       How to use findings to improve safety leadership?

·       How leaders use the big five to improve safety effectiveness?

·       The leader’s values and emotional commitment to safety  

·       Leadership styles: transactional leadership and transformational leadership

·       The transactional safety leader activities

·       The transformational safety leader activities

·       The cultivating leadership style

·       How the transformational leadership style is usually measured by a 360-degree diagnostic instrument?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

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ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.