This learning program is hosted in our Learning Management System (LMS). You will receive an access email within one business day from purchase, with details on how to log in to the LMS (new users only), and to provide access to your new course.

PREREQUISITE - Please note this course is an extension to Safety Essentials, and it is recommended that you complete Safety Essentials first, before undertaking Safety Leadership Essentials. For more information on Safety Essentials click here, or to access a discounted bundle offer for both courses, click here.

Program Overview

Safety Leadership Essentials explores the key responsibilities and skills of a business leader to influence a culture that is supportive of safety, wellbeing and professionalism.

The success of fostering a strong safety culture relies on authentic and transformational leadership to:

• Drive the cultural expectations
• Role model expected behaviours
• Effectively coach and influence teams towards ‘safety citizenship’.

This course is a targeted leadership development program that will help you master the 8 leadership competencies that support the journey of your organisation towards safety citizenship: Supporting, Recognising, Role Modelling, Actively Caring, Collaborating, Challenging, Vision and Inspiring.

As part of this program, you will have access to a personalised Safety Leadership Assessment. This assessment will enable you to identify both your safety leadership strengths and the areas you might benefit from developing further, and ensure that you get the maximum benefit from this program.

While the program is set in the context of safety, the skills you will learn also enhance general leadership capabilities.

Program Outline

Self Reflection - Sentis Safety Leadership Assessment

As a part of this program, you are invited to complete the SLA to reflect on your individual leadership style and behaviours, and to enable you to get the most value out of the course content.

After you have completed the survey, a summary report will be emailed to you highlighting each of the eight dimensions of safety leadership showing your self-rated competency level and development suggestions.

1. An Introduction to Safety Leadership

Revisit the Safety Culture Maturity Model to review the importance and the benefits of achieving safety citizenship in your organisation, and learn the fundamentals of the 8 Safety Leadership Competencies.

2. Creating and Communicating Our Safety Culture Story

Learn how to communicate your organisations safety Vision in a way that genuinely resonates with your team, how to guide your team through the stages of change, and how to implement strategies to Inspire your team by tapping into their emotional brain, driving increased engagement and ownership.

3. Leading with Trust and Active Care

Discover how to demonstrate Actively Caring for your people, how this helps build the trust and strong relationships required for effective leadership, and how to leverage the neuroscience of the social brain to influence psychological safety.

4. Conscious Leadership

Explore how Role Modelling desired attitudes and behaviours influences your team and drives the results and culture you are aiming for. You will also learn how to identify when you are operating from unhelpful child or parent frames, and how to practice reframing to adopt helpful adult frames, enabling you to powerfully influence your teams’ performance and potential.

5. Supporting Our Safety Vision

Learn about Supporting your team by clearly defining expectations and responsibilities, asking for input and fostering open 2-way communication, and encouraging constant and never-ending improvement. You will also discover the power of Recognising your team members, and learn how consciously using attributions can inspire, motivate and reengage individuals and teams.

6. Having Key Conversations

Explore how Challenging perspectives allows your team to see things in different ways, and learn a practical framework to facilitating effective key conversations, to address unhelpful attitudes and behaviours in a timely, respectful, constructive and effective manner.

7. Promoting a Learning and Improvement Culture

Discover the importance of Collaboration as a key driver to empower and engage your team on the never-ending journey of continuous improvement. This includes strategies to reframe unhelpful attitudes around safety reporting, and to help your team focus on what is possible rather than what is broken.

8. Safety Leadership in Action

Learn about the four strategies or ‘levers’ of leadership including advocating, guiding, coaching and empowering, how these strategies can support your team through the stages of change and help them maintain focus on your positive safety vision, and how each of these strategies relies on a combination of the 8 Safety Leadership Competencies. 

Key Learning Outcomes

On completing Safety Leadership Essentials, you will be able to:

• Identify the 8 Safety Leadership Competencies (8SLCs) that drive a culture of safety citizenship.
• Create a clear vision for your safety culture maturity goals and identify ways to inspire the workforce.
• Know what is required to create a culture based on trust and active care.
• Identify your conscious leadership frames around yourself and your team.
• Understand a range of leadership communication skills and strategies to improve the organisation's cultural and safety performance.

Delivered through an engaging and interactive online experience, this learning program includes: 

• Over 30 interactive lessons
• A downloadable Safety Leadership Essentials activity workbook
• A Safety Leadership Assessment to reflect on your individual leadership style and behaviours
• 8 downloadable supplementary fact sheets.

AIHS CPD Program

Completing this eLearning course offers up to 2 CPD Points towards Learning Activities as part of the Australian Institute of Health & Safety CPD Program.

So enrol in Safety Leadership Essentials today to equip yourself with the strategies, skills and knowledge required to influence a culture supportive of safety, wellbeing and professionalism!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to [email protected].