Training Content

Day 1

Develop and Maintain a Positive Safety Culture

Learn how to implement a safety culture based on the experience of DuPont and other participants. Understand the growth of a safety culture around the world, and how to improve it in your specific workplace through leadership and employee motivation with concrete goals. Study a real fatal accident in a factory and the aspects to be dealt with accordingly: legal procedures, internal and external communication with employees, victims’ families, local and national press, etc. This session underlines the importance of strong leadership and the implementation of an action plan and working methods upstream in order to avoid this type of event.

Day 2

Human judgment and risk decision

Human failures in decision-making and distortions that are pervasive in everyone. Know how to use simple tools to anticipate these distortions in stressful situations, and to analyse situations more objectively. Learn how to estimate risk and how to be discerning in the face of a problem/situation.

Influencing strategies (face-to-face programme session)

Learn how to manage different tactics and fundamental concepts of negotiation; manage difficult negotiations and develop effective strategies for long-term internal and external relationship building.

Day 3

Change in action

Understand the mechanisms that drive or hinder change and develop change management skills to involve culturally diverse stakeholders. Develop an engagement plan for your stakeholders. Discover the changes needed to apply to your HSE in a V.U.C.A. world and identify the dangers of a Taylorist approach to HSE.

Day 4

A global vision of safety culture

Explain the principle of “culture” and show the importance of motivating teams and engaging management at all levels to achieve “zero accidents”. To learn motivation techniques and the elements necessary to develop an action plan.

Day 5

Leadership, safety and stress management

Understand the difference between positive and negative stress, how to integrate stress management methods into your team and how to avoid the reflex traps of wanting to do well – going too fast, taking unnecessary risks or multitasking. Learn how to enable employees to evolve while accompanying them towards concrete objectives.

Workshops: sharing best practices

Develop your individual action plan and present it in a given situation. Study the case of the March 2011 tsunami: the notion of resilience and how the discipline, organisation and solidarity of Japanese culture influenced the outcome.