Coaching for Safety Performance

Coaching for Safety Performance

Transform safety leadership and safety performance at all levels across your organization by adding the impactful safety coaching programmes from the Coaching for Safety Performance Training Portfolio to your core training.

Leader Pathway

The safety culture of your organization is set by the leaders. This live programme enables leaders to see the culture they are creating, how it impacts on safety performance and what they can do to create a high performance safety culture.

The safety coaching Leader Pathway is designed for:

• Organizations looking to embed sustainable safety behaviours and improve safety performance
• Leaders in high-reliability environments

Supervisor Pathway

We know how busy your Supervisors are and so we have developed a self-paced online programme so that they can more easily fit it into their day.

The safety coaching Supervisor Pathway is designed for:

• Organizations looking to embed sustainable safety behaviours and improve safety performance
• Supervisors in high-reliability environments

What makes this training unique?

This ground-breaking behaviour-based safety programme is the first of its kind to apply coaching skills to improve safety performance. The course is based on our best-selling book, Coaching for Performance. The work has been featured in The Financial Times including that, in the first 3 months of implementation, it achieved an extraordinary 74% safety improvement in the workplace.

Creating a high-performance safety environment through safety coach training

The greatest influencers of an organization’s culture are its leaders, it is their behaviours that create the conditions for performance. This programme focuses on leadership behaviour and teaches a practical approach to real situations.

The results speak for themselves

As leaders, managers and supervisors change their behaviour and approach, the impact is clear and translates to improvements in safety performance: see the graph below, showing the impact seen at Linde Engineering in 1 year.

Safety performance

The extensive work done on Safety Maturity Models, including DuPont’s Bradley Curve, tells us that a high-performance safety culture is one in which people are empowered and have ownership of their own goals. Also, that the command and control structure of traditional management correlates to low performance. By equipping leaders, managers and supervisors with a coaching style of management, organizations can equip their leaders with the skills they need to transition to a high-performance safety environment.

Coaching skills transform safety culture

Key to improving safety is an increased awareness of self, others and situation, supported by clear communication between workers and management. This motivates and enables people to take personal ownership for safety, make better decisions and respond in safer ways. A coaching style of management is perfect to achieve this. We deliver intensive live workshops for leaders and a self-paced e-learning safety coaching programme for supervisors to learn to adopt a coaching style in their role. This is the key to developing a leading-edge skill set and behaviours that reduce injuries and incidents and unleash their own potential and that of their team within safety performance … MORE

Partnering with the European Commission

We have partnered with the European Commission to promote the adoption of coaching as the primary method of driver education throughout Europe. The objective was to facilitate higher safety standards through coaching. This involved retraining 40,000 driving instructors to teach in a coaching way with the specific aim of reducing accidents caused by young males on the road. A disproportionate percentage of young, inexperienced male drivers cause road fatalities, not because they cannot control a car but because they become competitive, aggressive, distracted or they show off. This is subconscious reaction much of the time but, through being coached, they learn to make considered choices through higher awareness that are suitable for the prevailing circumstances and thus reduce the number of fatalities.

Winning the Royal Tournament

The Fleet Air Arm in the UK is the Royal Navy’s aviation branch. It’s all about effective air power and support, both from the sea and shore bases no matter what the weather conditions. Joe Gough, trainer for the Fleet Air Arm’s competition team, trained in coaching skills with Performance Consultants. In the programme, Gough was sceptical but quickly saw the potential benefits of using coaching in place of the usual military command and control method. He put safety coaching to the test in the Field Gun Race, described as “the world’s most dangerous sport” and “the toughest team competition in the world” … MORE

The “Wow Factor”

Helping groups of leaders and managers to develop a coaching style of leadership requires specialized facilitation skills and expertise, consolidated by authentic coaching behaviours. Our approach to training is not a traditional classroom training. We call this “experiential coach facilitation”. As the name suggests, the style is highly experiential and practical (rather than theoretical). It takes advantage of accelerated learning techniques and adult learning theory.

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