Strengthening Safety Culture Through Communication

Communicating occupational safety and health information effectively is crucial to preventing employee injuries and illness. In this course designed for EHS leaders, safety managers, supervisors and line workers, you’ll explore the behavioral tools that help create and promote a positive and healthy culture of safety at your organization. Through lecture, class discussion and an exploration of real-life case studies, you’ll learn about the four keys to effective safety communication: interactive, informative, positive and productive. You’ll also gain tools to help determine root causes of unsafe behavior and strategies on how to eliminate them. By the end of this course, you’ll possess the knowledge and tools to create a safer work environment for your colleagues and organization.

Learning Outcomes

• Integrate the five disciplines of a learning organization into your organizational safety culture
• Establish an organizational safety culture that has a strong employee by-in and collaboration
• Identify root causes of poor safety behaviors/performance
• Utilize effective communication techniques to foster collaboration with employees towards system solutions and performance improvement

Skills You Will Gain

• Behavioral safety communication
• Risk analysis
• Safety solutions