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• What you’ll take away from this course
• About the Trainer

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2-day Practical Guide on Safety Culture Analysis – Building Positive Safe Operations Culture

Many safety practitioners have been finding ways to analyze and measure safety culture. In fact, many safety experts had written and proposed methods on how to analyze and build positive safety culture, which can be found in today’s quickest information bank – the Internet and libraries.

Today many organizations are judging organization’s safety culture and performance based on the number of accidents and the severity of the accidents. However, safety culture analysis is not just measuring the ‘outcome’ results (that is – frequency and severity of accidents) instead safety culture analysis is the measurement of ‘proactive efforts’ demonstrated by individuals and groups of the organization and in turn, correlating the ‘proactive efforts’ with the ‘outcome’ results.

Generally, organizations do not want any accidents. To do this, organizations have to control the workplace safety and health risk to as low as reasonably practicable. Occupational safety and health at the workplace cannot be control by an individual because of ultra vires and therefore, safety is derived as everyone’s responsibilities and accountabilities.

The definition of positive safety culture may be defined as an assemble of individuals, which made up of groups’ positive safety values, beliefs, attitudes, competencies and safe patterns of behavior that are committed in controlling a healthy and safe workplace using a practicable health and safety management system that can reduce the workplace's risk to as safe as reasonably practicable. These are demonstrated by top management empowering workplace safety and health down to the last worker in the organization with open communications, open consultations, consistent compliances and co-operations. (@ BSD Professionals, David Tan K P, 2005)

Safety culture analysis methodology is to exact the attributes from the definition and made them into parameters for measuring purposes. These attributes must be practicable for measurement in terms of variable.

The safety culture index system shall be derived from the attributes. The lower the index number, the more (leading) attributes achieved whilst the higher the index number, the lesser (lagging) attributes achieved. With this philosophy, the Index system can indicate the status of organization’s safety culture. To remedy or build towards a positive safety culture, the organization must correct the lagging attributes to achieve the lowest index number and in turn, create Safe Operations culture.

The index number shall then be correlated with the ‘outcome’ results. The lower the index number, the guaranteed lower the incident rates.

Course Outline:

Day 1

Principles of Direct and Indirect Control

This module discussed the principle of direct and indirect control and the importance of balancing negative and positive reinforcement in safety management.

Definition of Positive Safety Culture

This module discussed the rationale for deriving the definition of positive safety culture.

Parameters and attributes for measuring organization’s safety culture

This module focuses on how to employ the attributes found in the definition of positive safety culture and transforms these attributes into parameters for measuring safety culture.

Measurement of parameters and attributes

The discussion of this module mainly studies behavior of men-at-work and practical application of concepts and philosophies described in module 1, 2 and 3. This is to determine the leading and lagging indicators of an organization safety culture based on the definition of positive safety culture

DAY 2

Measurement of parameters and attributes

The lower the index number, the more (leading) attributes achieved whilst the higher the index number, the lesser (lagging) attributes achieved. With this philosophy, the Index system can indicate the status of the organization’s safety culture. The detail of the index system shall be presented in this module.

Building a Positive Safety Culture

To achieve positive safety culture, the organization basically has to transform the lagging indicators to positive indicators so as to achieve a lower index number.

Index Number Correlating with Outcome Results

This module discussed how the index number system is used to correlate with incident / accident rates.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is recommended for safety practitioners, directors, professionals, health and safety advisors/ officers, engineers, managers, executive, managing directors and other persons with health and safety responsibilities (e.g. safety representatives).

This training should interest those who would like to learn how to analyze safety culture and build a positive workplace culture and performance. While these modules are designed for safety people occupying managerial/ supervisor roles, or roles with substantial organizational responsibilities, they are also relevant for businesses operations and self-employed people

What you’ll take away from this course

• Get the latest guide book on how to analyze safety culture and build a positive safety culture.
• The first methodology that has ever developed on analyzing safety culture.
• Certificate of Participation

About the Trainer

David Tan Kok Pheng is a well-known behavioral safety practitioner, a safety culture analyst and a workplace safety and health officer with over many years worldwide experience.

During the course of his work, he finds behavioral safety an interesting subject and has then developed and implemented behavioral safety in many sites. He truly believes that by developing and implementing behavioral safety in due diligent, companies would definitely reduce the number of incidents.

This proactive safety framework approach has arguably managed with proven records to introduce a philosophy of prevention, rather than compensation, as a basis for dealing with risk at work. Under his guidance, many of these companies achieved a great reduction in incident rates.

Master Degree in Science (Environment Health and Safety) / Bachelor Degree in Science Health and Safety / The Colleague of Teachers, Incorporated by Royal Charter 1849 & Supplemental Charter 1998, DEMS Training and Business Continuity Training / Advanced Certificate In Training & Assessment

Accredited trainer for Risk Management Course / Accredited trainer for Workplace Safety and Health Management System course / Approved Risk Management Consultant

Registered Workplace Safety and Health Officer / Environmental Control Officer / Fire Safety Manager

Some Typical Comments from Attendees

Participants from various industries in UK:

• I like the safety culture analysis, is the first I have ever learnt
• Enjoyable and useful presentation
• David was amusing and very enthusiastic
• We recognize some aspects already, but we can improve by extending and formalizing David’s approach
• Very interesting concept
• A first class presentation on this topic

Participant from Japan

• Very interesting course. Lot of lessons learnt and tools to take back from it

Participants from Germany

• An open eye on how to perform safety culture analysis and the approach in behavioral safety is very practical
• Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us during the two days safety culture analysis workshop
Participants from various industries in Singapore
• The 2 days was a good learning session for me especially when I am new in the industry. This course was insightful. It provided me with a new angle of looking at how we can ‘quantify and measure safety performance’.
• Its good and refreshing hearing the BBS presentation from David’s perspectives
• Hope everything is fine with you and you are happily exploring the world of pattern of behavior. Thanks for the very enriching workshop.