Safety Culture & Leadership

Course Overview

Visible safety leadership and commitment from top management is a cornerstone to establish a strong and pervasive safety culture. Ministry of Manpower (MOM) gazetted the Approved Code of Practice for CEO and Directors’ WSH Duties in Oct 2023 (ACOP). This course will equip learners with what constitutes a strong safety culture and help them to support and guide their top management and Directors to put in practice practical measures to demonstrate their conformance to ACOP.

Course Learning Outcome

• Recognising the importance of a strong safety culture and leadership to shape the desired behaviours across the organization
• Understanding the roles of WSH Professionals in supporting and guiding their CEOs and Directors in complying with the Principles of the ACOP
• Taking a more proactive and strategic approach to safety
• Identifying latent management practices that could inadvertently, be contributing to poor WSH outcomes
• Techniques to engage and empower workers to raise WSH concerns and act pro-actively when sensing red flags at the workplace

Course Outline

1. Importance of WSH in business
2. Components of a high-performing safety culture
3. ACOP (CEO and Directors’ WSH Duties)
4. Leadership behaviour and management commitment to WSH
5. Roles of WSH Professionals in building a strong safety culture
6. Case studies