Managing Safety Performance: Skills for Supervisors

For line supervisors, producing successful results takes more than just a safety manual and an occasional speech at a safety meeting. The Managing Safety Performance

• Creating clear expectations for the requirement to work safely
• Evaluating the current level of safety performance in the organization
• Resolving unsafe work behaviors and practices
• Leading effective safety meetings
• Recognizing and reinforcing safe work behaviors and practices
• Investigating undesired events to understand their causes

Your supervisors hold the greatest influence over the safety performance of your organization. Get them doing and saying the right things, and you’ll have a powerful ally in achieving the safety goals of the organization. Supervisors can become your strongest ally in the "war on injuries" but, they need to be armed to win.

The methods and techniques taught come from practical experience; these methods and techniques work for others and they can work for your supervisors, too.

At the completion of the Managing Safety Performance program, participants will be able to:

• Define the reasons why safety is a vital concern for supervisors, the people doing the work, and top management.
• Identify the critical elements essential for outstanding safety performance under the control and influence of a supervisor
• Identify and resolve unsafe work behaviors and conditions.
• Recognize and reward safe work behaviors.
• Utilize measurement systems and metrics to evaluate safety performance.
• Lead effective safety meetings.
• Conduct an effective incident investigation.

Immediate action following this course reinforces the learning process. Accordingly, each participant will leave with a personalized action plan to address a pressing safety issue. The action plan is designed to incorporate the organization’s safety goals and objectives.

The Program:

Managing Safety Performance is an intensive two-day workshop. Classroom lectures, individual and group exercises, and case studies are used to bring real world safety management problems into the classroom. The course is taught by an instructional staff of senior line managers, each with more than thirty years of experience in operations and safety management.

Who Should Attend:

Any supervisor with line responsibility in an organization where safety is a top priority. Also, any individual determined to prepare for supervisory responsibilities.

Course Developer:

Paul Balmert, Principal Consultant, Balmert Consulting, is the chief architect of the workshop and lead instructor. Paul spent more than thirty years in chemical manufacturing, including many years at a large Texas City facility. He served as Corporate Operations Training Manager, Maintenance Manager, Human Resources Manager, and managed the safety and loss control function at the plant and corporate level. He brought this diverse experience and perspective to the task of improving supervisor and management performance. The content of the course incorporates the techniques and practices used by Paul to improve safety performance.

Instructors:

Joining Paul as instructional staff are several like-minded senior managers with extensive line management experience and a similar track record of safety performance. Together, they comprise a cadre of teachers capable of making a difference in the safety performance of your business.