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Safety Leadership Training - Line Supervisors

The role of line supervision has substantially evolved over the last twenty-five years. Today, the effective line supervisor must be equipped with skills and knowledge different than of the 70’s and 80’s. Now, the supervisor must facilitate safety excellence and ensure all team members are actively involved in their own safety and in promoting the safety of others. “Safety Excellence for Line Supervisors” provides each participant with the fundamental skills necessary to effectively manage safety at the team level. This highly interactive and entertaining eight hour seminar provides line supervisors with the insights and capabilities needed to ensure all team members contribute to an incident-free workplace.

Benefits

Provides line supervisors with a clear understanding of their safety roles and responsibilities.
Teaches supervisors the skills and techniques necessary to achieve and maintain safety excellence.
Gives team leaders the ability to involve all members in safety activities and to draw upon the unique experience and contribution of each employee.
Trains each participant in fundamental and tested techniques and activities used to ensure an incident-free workplace.
Demonstrates how effective safety techniques can be used to improve other aspects of business management.

Line Supervisors - Safety Training Curriculum

SESSION 1: Principles of Safety Excellence

This module reviews the philosophies of safety excellence and how they effect safety performance.

SESSION 2: Management Leadership

Line management for any safety effort is absolutely critical for success. This element details the role of line supervisors in managing and leading a safety effort.

SESSION 3: Safety Responsibility

The legal, moral and economic benefits of sound safety management are reviewed. Safety as an equal and integral part of every supervisors job is discussed in detail.

SESSION 4: Safe Work Conditions

The tools and activities used by supervisors and employees to increase hazard recognition skills and ensure safety work conditions are reviewed.

SESSION 5: Personal Accountability

The basic formula for developing safe behaviors in a comprehensive system is explored. The role of supervisors in maintaining and developing personal accountability is reviewed as is the use of positive discipline to develop safe behaviors.

SESSION 6: Developing Safe Behaviors

Session 6 reviews various prevention activities used to develop safe behaviors. Effective techniques of safety training, job analysis, task observation and safety coaching are reviewed as are techniques to maximize involvement and improve hazard recognition skills.

SESSION 7: Safety Meetings

Sound safety management requires a forum for the review and analysis of safety data and for the planning of future prevention activities. SRI’s Sequential Safety Meeting System is reviewed as are the tools and techniques for conducting an effective safety meeting.

SESSION 8: Incident Investigation

Supervisors learn about the fundamentals of sound incident investigation and how to develop lasting corrective action plans. SRI’s Process Failure Theory of Investigation is reviewed to help line supervisors develop better root cause analysis and problem solving skills.

SESSION 9: Process Evaluation and Improvement

Safety excellence is predicated upon the fact that each work team can use safety process data to identify negative trends and then develop and execute safety process activities which diminish or eliminate these trends. Activities which make safety improvement a continuous process are reviewed in this session.