Safety Management Techniques

Training goal

You'll learn how to lead safety in your organization, and get your team involved in safety and health efforts.

Who should attend?

Attend this course if you are coordinating, supervising, or managing safety and health efforts at your facility/company. Designed for the safety leader, this course meets the needs of safety and health committee leaders, supervisors, and middle/upper managers.

What you'll learn

• Identify the fundamental principles of safety management.
• Recognize the key elements of NSC's safety management system.
• Determine your role as a safety and health professional and define line management's safety and health responsibilities.
• Identify leadership strategies that contribute to your success as a manager.
• Recognize the dynamics of organizational safety culture.
• Recognize strategies and steps to create organizational and individual change.
• Enhance your interviewing, consulting and influencing skills to enlist support from key people in your organization.
• Use measurement tools to track the progress of your organization's safety management system.
• Identify the steps for preparing a successful safety management audit.
• Establish a business case for a safety management system.
• Use problem solving and decision making skills to resolve your organization's safety and health issues
• Create an action plan to improve safety management in your organization.

Here's what is new in SMT:

Four new modules!
• Dynamics of Organizational Safety Culture
• Safety Performance Measurements
• Defining Roles and Responsibilities
• Business Case for Safety Management System

You'll also get:

• 9 Elements of an Effective Safety Management System
• Case Studies in Safety and Productivity, Volume One
• Injury Facts CD-ROM, current edition
• Safety and Health Code of Ethics