WHS

The Ultimate 5 Step Guide on Safety Training in the Workplace

Are You Aware of Your Safety Training Needs?

Future Institute of Australia offers a unique process to identify your organisation’s specific safety leadership training needs. We then design a tailored, practical one-day Safety Leadership Workshop that targets the safety behaviours your organisation should maintain, stop, start, or modify. This approach ensures a customised training program that directly addresses the unique challenges and needs of your organisation.

Step 1: Training Needs Analysis (TNA) Workshop

The primary aim is to identify the specific safety behaviours that your leaders / workers need to keep, stop, change, or begin.

  • Engagement with Key Personnel: The TNA workshop involves facilitated small group and then large group discussions with key personnel who have a deep understanding of the organisation’s operations and safety challenges. These individuals typically include managers, supervisors, team leaders, and WHS representatives.
  • Behavioural Assessment: Through structured facilitated discussions and activities, participants will assess current safety behaviours and practices. This involves identifying behaviours that are effective and should be maintained, those that are problematic and need to be stopped, and new behaviours that should be adopted to enhance safety.
  • Data Collection: Collecting qualitative and quantitative data on current WHS practices, incident reports, near-miss records, and employee feedback to gain a comprehensive understanding of the existing safety culture and practices.

Step 2: Gather Intel on Previous WHS Incidents and Near Misses

To ensure the training program is relevant and impactful, it is crucial to base it on real scenarios and past experiences within your organisation. This step focuses on analysing previous WHS incidents and near misses to create realistic case studies and discussion materials.

Step 3: Design and Develop a Bespoke, Practical Safety Leadership Workshop

Future Institute then facilitates one or two virtual meetings with the key personnel involved in the TNA workshop to customise and contextualise the training

  • Case Studies Development: We develop case studies, scenarios and discussion topics based on incidents and near misses, etc from your own organisation. These case studies, scenarios and topics are crafted to reflect real situations that your employees can relate to and learn from.
  • Customisation: We incorporate your organisation’s branding (eg., logo) and images (eg., photos of plant and equipment, employees in action) into the training materials. This customisation helps to create a sense of ownership and relevance, increasing employee engagement and buy-in.
  • Program Design: We design a comprehensive training program based on the findings from the TNA workshop and the case studies developed. The workshop will outline specific WHS behaviours to keep, stop, change, or begin.

Step 4: Delivering of a Fully Customised WHS Program

We then deliver a tailored Safety Leadership Workshop that effectively addresses the identified behaviours and ensures leaders (and therefore employees) understand and adopt the desired safety practices.

Step 5:  Enjoy the benefits of a customised WHS training program for your organisation

  • Clear safety leadership behaviours are addressed
  • Leaders (and therefore employees) gain a clear understanding of the specific safety behaviours they need to adopt.
  • Improved safety culture and practices within the organisation.
  • Reduced incidents and near-misses due to the adoption of better safety behaviours and practices.

This comprehensive and customised approach ensures that the WHS training program is relevant, engaging, and effective in changing the necessary behaviours to enhance workplace safety.

Contact us for more information

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