Influencing Skills for Safety Officers

Safety officers are critical to ensuring an organisation’s WHS strategy and plans are undertaken at a local level. Apart from ensuring compliance to safety legislations and organisational procedures, safety officers are uniquely positioned to influence the day to day workplace culture to achieve safe and productive work outcomes. Organisations with a strong safety culture are more likely to achieve their WHS goals, with a reduction in incidences and in the loss of productivity and disruption they cause. This workshop is designed to enhance the influencing skills of safety personnel, enabling them to positively influence in a range of situations including: staff compliance with safety requirements, acceptance of safety recommendations, and instigating constructive change in safety culture. Ideal for individuals and organisations wanting to develop a robust, effective and high performance safety culture.

The following topics will be covered:

• the nature of the Safety Officer’s influencing role
• techniques to improve your influencing skills
• introduction to human factors impacting on safe operations
• how to respond to human factors to influence staff
• understanding the impact your personal style and professional presence has on others
• applying learning to achieving safety culture at work

On completing this course you will have:

• an understanding of how and why to influence, the opportunity influence creates and how you can apply this in your work
• influencing tools and techniques
• strategies to improve the effectiveness of worksite safety interventions by taking into consideration human factors
• an understanding of how applying a business improvement focus to safety can improve likelihood of influencing senior staff
• prepared an Action Plan to implement key learning at work

We will provide you with:	Course Notes, a Certificate of Completion and refreshments during the day, including a light lunch on full day courses.
You are encouraged to bring:	Current workplace examples related to this topic for use in course exercises.
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Influencing Skills for Safety Officers

Dates:	Thursday 9 August 2018 (9.00am - 4.30pm)
Location:	PCE, 9.01, Lvl 9, 115 Grenfell St
Instructor(s):	Trevor Strother B.Bus(Personnel and Industrial Relations) Cert IV Occupational Health and Safety, Cert IV Training and Assessment, Cert IV Frontline Management Trevor’s career has focussed on improving organisations so they are both successful business’s and positive places for people to work. His has held senior leadership roles within Australian and international organisations. For the past 15 years he has consulted internationally on facilitating organisational culture change through safety. His experience has taught him to look beyond the numbers and see an organisation's safety culture as superior indicator of safety performance. He has worked on projects in North and South America, UK and Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle Eas, as well as, in Australia for companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil, BP and Santos. His philosophy is that people learn behavioural skills best through experience, so his workshops are always practical and interactive.
Schedule Number:	5824

Required Fees:
Registration (GST Free)	$570.00

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