Leadership Training

OpX Safety conducts training/seminars for operational management teams to enhance their ability to lead safety effectively as a core business element.  The training can include any of the following subjects:

Safety Leadership Development for Management Teams

1. Determining the real value for safety
   1. Determining management’s personal expectations and beliefs for the value of safety and safety performance.

2. Operational Roles
   1. Who owns safety?
   2. Defining the correct safety roles of Line and Staff

3. Understanding The Safety/Operational Relationship
   1. Organizational roots of safety issues
   2. Determining organizational and operational challenges
   3. Organizational value for the truth – “organizational bravery”
   4. Conducting floor level effectiveness assessments (measuring the “health” of your organization)
   5. Discovering organizational root cause (rather than just the safety system)

4. Value-based decision-making
   1. How do you do it?
   2. Value trade-offs
   3. Making integrated decisions and initiatives – how not to put your first line supervisors (or employees) in a bad situation

5. How to effectively manage/integrate your safety staff
   1. Their role, their perspective and their calibration to you
   2. How can you help them help you?

6. Where is your next injury (problem) going to be?
   1. What do you know about your safety risk?
   2. How to predict failures in your organization

7. What are you getting from your safety measures/metrics?
   1. What you know today vs. what you should know
   2. How safety data is very different than your other business data – what safety data should be telling you about your business

8. Managing fatality risk vs. OSHA recordable risk
   1. Understanding the differences and how to measure fatality risk
   2. The pitfalls of using incident frequency as a primary measure of risk
   3. The precursors of fatalities
   4. Understanding fatality prevention programs

9. Hazard elimination vs. risk management
   1. Business value of hazards – understanding why we like hazards
   2. The Hazard Life-cycle (diagram)
   3. The reliability and hidden costs associated with risk management

10. Understanding facility-wide risk management
    1. Putting it all together
    2. Selecting the right controls – which of these should concern you
    3. Taking the pulse of risk on an on-going basis

11. Measuring operational/safety factors
    1. How to spot the warning signs

12. What you should be getting from your time in plant/in the field
    1. You may be looking at the wrong stuff
    2. What operational conditions should really be telling you
    3. How to effectively communicate with employees on the floor
    4. Valuing Why rather than What

13. Employee engagement
    1. Present state measures – how do you measure employee engagement?
    2. Involvement to Ownership evolution
    3. How to take the right steps forward

14. Non -verbal leadership communication
    1. How your nonverbal cues tell people what you really want

15. Creating common ground with labor unions
    1. How to use safety as foundation of trust building