Developing an Effective Safety Culture

Why Attend

An effective safety culture is vital for developing and implementing a successful safety management system. Preventing major accidents requires everyone to follow safety practices and intervene when unsafe behaviors are observed. This course emphasizes personal responsibility and engagement to improve safety culture. Participants will learn the impact of safety culture, methods to establish improvement processes, ways to foster behavioral change, assess organizational safety culture, and explore theories from Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Geller, and Maslow.

Overview

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

Course Methodology

Instructor-led training that uses interactive learning methods, including class discussion, small group activities, and role-playing

Course Objectives

Have a clear understanding of human factors and their application to their organization’s current safety cultural status; Be familiar with elements of safety management systems and their purpose; Appreciate the consequences of behavioral acts and omissions as prime causes of accidents and emergency situations; Be able to develop a step-by-step safety cultural improvement program within their own organization; Develop an appreciation of carrying out an HSE cultural positional assessment; Develop skills for identifying, evaluating and reconciling solutions for influencing behavioral change improvement measures

Target Audience

Target Competencies

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DAY 1

Introduction to Safety Culture

Safety culture and safety climate
Improving safety performance
Behavior and Culture
- Organization factors
- Job factors
- Personal factors
Historical review
Case study

DAY 2

Safety Management Systems

Safety management systems framework and safety culture factors
Essential safety management system components
Developing an effective safety management system
Mechanical Model of SMS
Socio-Technical Model of SMS
More safety culture factors
- Risk and risk perceptions
- Human error
- Stress
Case Study “Mersin Refinery”

DAY 3

HSE Model for Safety Culture

Identifying problem areas
Dependant, Independent, and Interdependent Cultures
Planning for change
HSE cultural change model
How to intervene
Key Performance indicators
Success factors and barriers
Attitude Questionnaires

DAY 4

Behavioural Safety

Safety culture and behavioral safety
Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Geller, Maslow
Natural penalties and consequences
ABC analysis
- Antecedents
- Behavior
- Consequences
What drives behavior
Natural penalties and consequences

DAY 5

Assessing the Safety Culture

Establishing the current status of a safety culture
Results of questionnaires
Case studies from different organizations
A step-change in safety
Managing people and their attitude to safety
Developing questionnaires
Personal action plans
Course review

$3275

Beijing

Country: China

Duration: One week

Date: 24–28 Nov 2025

$3875

Doha

Developing an Effective Safety Culture

Overview

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

Course Methodology

Course Objectives

Target Audience

Target Competencies

$3275

Country: China

Duration: One week

Date: 24–28 Nov 2025

$3875

Country: Quatar

Duration: One week

Date: 23–27 Mar 2026