CATEGORY: Leadership and Management

Safety Leadership in the Oil and Gas Industry

Course Access: Lifetime
Course Overview

Course Length: 5 days Course
Dates

Course
Description

This training course has been
specifically designed to equip technical and supervisory personnel in the oil
and gas sectors with the knowledge, skills and understanding to become
effective Safety Leaders in this critical, high hazard industry. On the
training course, you will learn about utilising
management and leadership techniques to control
your team, your work
environment; identify and control risks and hazards, as well as create a
climate and culture for improved safety, using behavioural safety competencies
and techniques. This training course is essential for those operating and
working in high hazard and critical safety operations.

Who should Attend

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals
but will greatly benefit those who operate in a technical or supervisory
capacity in the sector:

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Technical personnel

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Engineering/Project/Process personnel

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Supervisors

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Team leaders

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Safety Officers

What you will Learn:

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Recognize & understand the roles and
responsibilities of Safety Leadership

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Employ leadership and team working techniques to
effectively manage safety on site

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Apply behavioral safety techniques to improve
communication and safety culture

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Identify & determine critical risk
identification and hazard analysis to prevent accidents and incidents

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Identify the criteria to improve the safety climate
and culture across the organization

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Using supervisory, management and leadership
criteria applicable to Safety Leadership

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Interpersonal and behavioural safety techniques to
improve overall safety

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Risk and hazard analysis to prevent incidents and
accidents, and the correct
procedures to handling these

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Help create, adapt and improve the safety climate
and culture of the organisation

Course Outline

Day
One: Safety Leadership: Roles, Responsibilities and Defining a Safety Culture

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Introduction: understanding safety critical
operations and risks in the oil and gas industry

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Defining a safety culture in a high hazard, process
oil and gas industry

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Safety Leadership v Safety Management

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From Technical/Supervisory leader to a Safety
Leader: skills and behaviours

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Understanding behavioural safety concepts and the
impact on safety

 Day Two: Interpersonal Skills and Behavioural Safety
Competency

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Understanding your own and others behavioural styles

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ABC model of behavioural change

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Influencing and negotiating behaviours: skills and techniques

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Communication skills: questions and listening

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Situational awareness and human perception

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Using advanced interpersonal skills to challenge
unsafe behaviours or acts

 Day Three: Increasing Safety Performance through Teamwork

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Defining safety performance

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Setting safety performance criteria and objectives

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Teamwork: principles and factors

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Motivational factors to influence safety

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Understanding ‘‘at risk’’ behaviours (violations and errors)

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Safety Coaching in the process environment

 Day Four: Hazard Identification and Controlling Risks

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Defining hazard and risk: HAZOP

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Critical safety hazards within the extraction,
process and production environment

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Risk Assessment: matrix formation

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Controlling your area: permits, safe systems of work

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Accident and incident investigation procedures

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Conducting an accident and incident review meeting

 Day Five: Safety Leadership and
Developing the Organisational Safety Culture

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Safety Leadership: the embodiment of safety in the organisation

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Gaining support and buy-in from key stakeholders

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Creating and continuing a safety climate and safety culture

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Continuous safety leadership in the organisation:
vision and delivery

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Commitment to improving workplace safety

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Next steps