This course, "Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Strong Foundation," explores the critical difference between safety culture and climate. You will learn why a strong safety culture is more than just compliance—it drives performance, reduces incidents, and saves lives. We'll delve into how culture develops through leadership, everyday behavior, and interactions, and how to recognize its visible signs.

The course highlights the essential role of leadership in modeling safe behavior and fostering trust. Discover how safety is a shared responsibility, influenced by everyone from frontline workers to senior management, and learn strategies for building a blame-free environment where psychological safety encourages open reporting and continuous learning from incidents and near misses.

You will also gain practical skills in measuring safety culture using leading indicators, perception surveys, and maturity models, understanding what your data truly reveals. The course emphasizes engaging employees effectively, leveraging tools like inspections, audits, and observations to drive improvement, and navigating resistance to change.

By the end of this course, you will understand:

• What safety culture and climate are and why they matter.
• How leadership shapes safety beliefs and behaviors.
• Strategies for involving all employees in safety efforts.
• Methods for learning from incidents and using data proactively.
• How to build trust and overcome barriers to cultural change.

Learn how to actively nurture a safety culture that doesn't just exist, but thrives, ensuring a safer, more supportive, and higher-performing workplace for everyone.