Safety Leadership Training Redefined

Workplace safety is not all about wearing a helmet. It’s part of it, but if need your helmet, some controls must have gone astray. And this is only talking about physical safety.

Here’s some questions; what is more likely; a physical or psychological injury? What’s more costly, a physical or psychological injury? And which type affects productivity more?

More and more, psychological injury is becoming is becoming increasingly important. I saw a recent stat for NSW School teachers that are experiencing 75.5% more violence in last 10 years. That’s concerning.

Couple this with the need to meet the regulations set out in ISO 45003 Psychological Safety at Work Standards and Psychological Safety Legislation, safety leadership in Australia has never been more important. The requirement for mature leadership and workforce management around psychological safety in the workplace means organisations need better leaders. 

Safety Leadership: The Essentials

Have you ever said something that you realised you shouldn’t have later? Odds are, emotions were in play. A big part of leadership is emotionally regulation. 

A common reason why most organisations struggle to attain workplace safety culture stability is that they cannot get their staff to consistently follow all the safety rules or get their personnel to build a rapport with them. A lot of this has to do with emotions, where completely rational ideas and skills are lost in the “heat” of the moment.

Being able to regulate your emotions when it matters is an essential skills for any modern safety leaders. But are they aware enough to see this happening.

Another area for focus is mindful awareness. You can’t manage something you do see, or know, is happening. So often, leaders are completely unaware of how their behaviour and language impacts a situation. And if a leader can’t do it properly, how can they model it for the workforce? Not very well unfortunately.

This leads to another critical area of safety leadership: Safety Attitude. Are your leaders positive about safety? Do they really care or are they in compliance mode? Is looking after their people a by-product or the goal. Here’s a thought? How much productivity and performance do you lose to a psychological injury? It’s hard to measure but there is one way to find out. See how much more productive people are when they are safe and safety is a priority. Every study you find will show time and time again that safety performance is proportional to productivity.

It’s hard to utilise an asset if they are broken all the time. Safety is the most important asset management you’ve got.

And lastly, even when it’s safe to speak up, many people still don’t. What’s driving that? We call it Safety Aptitude, or Safety Efficacy. It’s confidence in the system and in themselves that the risk is managed. Often our leaders are the ones that drive this so working on this element is essential.

Why have Psychological Safety Leadership Training?

He’s a few reasons:

• Safety Awareness: Send out a consistent awareness of psychological safety in the workplace through actionable monitoring by trained leaders. 

• Align Workforces: Prepare leaders with psychosocial risk skills so that they can be responsible for instilling a safety mindset equally throughout the workforce. 

• Reduce Workplace Incidents: This safety leadership course will teach leaders to foresee and prevent accidents, disagreements between staff members, cultural conflicts and so on, and maintain a stable workplace safety culture. 

• Reduce Workplace Claims: By building workplace mental health wellness and instinctive psychological safety in the workplace, organisations can actively reduce workplace incidents to a dormant level. No incidents mean no claims. 

Safety Leadership Training Programs

The psychological safety leadership training modules and certification offered by Aframes Safety not only help compliance with the regulatory norms (Work and Health Safety (WHS) Amendment Act 2023 and ISO 45003 Psychological Safety at Work standards) but generates the safety culture you want. We offer two safety leadership programmes that are both online self-paced learning modules with webinar masterclasses as well as custom one-on-one coaching. 

Leader Pack: Designed with customised webinar content and safety mindset metrics for the entire workforce, this safety leadership course module addresses a group of leaders to achieve the key outcomes of high-performance safety approaches, diversity management and workplace psychological safety through adaptability and innovation. 

One-on-One Coaching Pack for Leadership Training:  This course module allows learners to get tailored coaching with mindful safety leadership experts, giving a more personalised coaching experience delivering outstanding leadership development. 

All courses are annual plans that feature quarterly and yearly reports to ensure you are across your psychological safety standards. After completing the course, attendees will get their safety leadership certificate. 

If you are ready to transform the safety and leadership culture, we’d love to help. Let get the right kind of safety leadership training that makes your workplace a safer place. Visit our pricing page to explore our plans or get an instant quote that suits your needs..