Advanced Safety Leadership Skills Training Course

Course Category : Risk Management

This advanced programme equips leaders with powerful safety-leadership competencies, integrating behavioural, psychological, and strategic approaches to elevate workplace safety culture and achieve sustainable excellence.
Duration: 5 Days
Level: Advanced

Introduction

Advanced safety leadership is central to creating resilient, high-performing organisations where safety is embraced as a core value at every level. Modern safety leadership goes beyond regulatory compliance; it integrates behavioural psychology, strategic communication, and proactive risk management to promote lasting cultural transformation.
This programme provides participants with advanced leadership tools, behavioural insights, innovative engagement techniques, and modern methodologies for improving safety performance. Through real-world case studies, investigative frameworks, and leadership models, participants will gain the competence to drive a zero-harm culture and advance organisational safety excellence..

Targeted Specializations

Directors and departmental heads.
HSE managers and advisors.
Safety leaders at global, regional, or local levels.
Professionals aiming for zero accidents and improved safety culture.
Individuals seeking innovative safety-leadership practices.

Targeted Skills

Advanced safety-leadership competencies.
Understanding behavioural and psychological drivers.
Motivation and workforce engagement techniques.
Advanced accident-investigation skills.
Organisational risk and resilience management.

Expected Outcomes

Apply leadership traits that create sustainable safety-culture shifts.
Distinguish unsafe acts vs. unsafe conditions without a blame approach.
Use motivational and communication techniques to engage the workforce.
Develop a safety culture across psychological, behavioural, and situational dimensions.
Strengthen innovative safety-leadership capabilities.
Lead advanced accident investigations and implement findings.
Enhance organisational risk-management strategies.
Build high-engagement, collaborative safety environments.
Improve decision-making during incidents and emergencies.
Apply monitoring frameworks to drive continuous safety improvement.

Training Topics Index

Accident analysis. facts, figures, and cost impact.
Why accidents still occur. human factors, triggers, consequences.
Conscious vs. unconscious influences on safety culture.
Understanding the Bradley Curve and mindset stages.
The new ABC model. affective, behavioural, cognitive.
Applying behavioural psychology in improving SMS.

Major hazards and prevention practices.
ISO 31000 and safety-excellence applications.
Occupational vs. process safety and asset-risk management.
FTA and ETA techniques.
Bow-Tie analysis for risk visualisation.
Emergency-response planning and mutual aid.
Safety inspections and audits.

Enhancing leadership through self-awareness.
Communication strategies and social performance.
Campaign communication and stakeholder engagement.
Building a genuine desire for safety adoption.
Adapting leadership styles to situational needs.

Building competent and confident investigation teams.
Roles of HSE leaders and management in investigations.
Investigation methodology and essential checklists.
Field observation and active listening techniques.
Writing persuasive and actionable investigation reports.

International standards. BSI65000, BS11200, ISO 31000/22301/24762.
Impact of major change or incidents on organisations.
Crisis and emergency management in resilience frameworks.
Strategic risk and risk behaviour.
Identifying and managing current and future threats.
Maintaining critical functions during crises.

Course Features

Modern and practical content
Real-world examples and leadership exercises
Pre- and post-course assessments to measure impact
Accredited certificate with QR code verification

Advanced Safety Leadership Skills Training Course