Want to Develop Your Safety Coaching Skills to Enhance Your Safety Training Outcomes?

Safety training is essential to generate awareness of procedures and other technical aspects of safety. However, a less commonly used method of learning is safety coaching, which focuses on helping people see safety differently. By combining the benefits of both training and coaching, you can generate superior safety performance in your organization.

Certificate of Mastery in Safety Coaching

6-Week Practice-Based Online Course

The new view of safety is more about learning than compliance. However, there are many barriers to learning as a team. Join this program to become a great safety coach and eliminate those barriers.

Top 7 Results You Can Generate by Taking This Training

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Improve Reporting of Incidents
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Put your Safety Management System into Action
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Lead Meaningful Safety Meetings
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Reduce the Resistance to Safety Compliance
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Demonstrate Safety as a Value to the Management
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Create a Culture of Safety Across the Organization
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Increase Productivity and Reduce Operating Costs

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Our 6-Step ACTIVE Safety Coaching Framework

This program will introduce you to ACTIVE Safety Coaching, a framework designed specifically to generate safety performance. The six steps involved in this coaching framework are Awareness, Communication, Trust, Interpretation, Vision and Engagement.

There is a significant difference between someone “believing safety is important” and “being a safety leader." By attending this program, you will be able to work with your teams and make safety part of their "way of being.”

Are you a safety trainer, advisor, or consultant? Do you want to offer this framework to your clients? Let’s join forces and make the world a safer place.

Core Competencies

Elevating Self-Awareness
Overcoming Cognitive Biases
Listening Actively and Coaching Presence
Asking Powerful Coaching Questions
Communicating Non-Judgmentally
Maintaining Emotional Agility
Being a Trustworthy Coach

Creating a Blame-Free Safety Culture
Acknowledging Employees' Perceptions of Risk
Taking Ownership of Compliance
Design Thinking for Compliance
Building Relationships and Safety Leadership
Creating Buy-in and Setting Coaching Goals
Managing Commitment to Change

Learn and Practice Safety Coaching in Your Real-World Situations.

Week 1 – Elevating Operators' Self-Awareness

Operators' cognitive biases and enemies of learning are critical factors that lead to poor safety decisions. In other words, they should be aware of their limitations and those of others to behave safely. Most importantly, such awareness should be available in every situation. The purpose of safety coaching is to help people change their perceptions of risk and eliminate their blind spots.

Practice: You will practice observing operators' perceptions of risk, legitimize them, and invite them to see safety differently and produce different outcomes.

Week 2 – Leveraging the Power of Conversations

Safety coaching is essentially a conversation or a series of conversations that lead to a specific safety outcome. On the other hand, safety management systems direct people to comply with a set of rules. You will need different types of conversations to manage and coach for safety. In other words, a conversation for compliance is not the same as the one to generate commitment.

Practice: You will practice communicating your safety needs with clarity and precision, so there is no room for assumptions and ambiguity.

Week 3 – Working With the Root Emotions

Emotions are one of the most overlooked aspects of safety because many organizations expect workers to leave their emotions at home. However, this is not possible because we all are emotional beings, and none of our decisions is purely rational. Safety coaching opens the possibility to acknowledge and understand the emotions underlying the operators' attitudes toward risk.

Practice: You will practice to notice and name your team's emotions and help them shift from emotions that hinder your organization's safety performance.

Week 4 - Creating a Blame-Free Safety Culture

One of the leading factors that hinder an organization's safety performance is employees not reporting incidents. You can't make improvements to safety without identifying hidden systemic problems. For that, one needs trust in management, pride in what they do, and dignity. Safety coaching helps create a just culture that acknowledges and rewards the reporting of incidents.

Practice: You will practice how to develop, maintain, and repair trust through conversations that shift from a culture of fear and distrust.

Week 5 - Active Listening and Powerful Questioning

During incident investigations, we ask why and how they occurred to find their root causes. In addition, in safety coaching, we examine the qualities of the teams involved. To do that, we need to investigate beyond words and reasons to understand the emotions that motivated them. As trained safety observers, we then can ask powerful questions to elevate their safety awareness.

Practice: You will practice listening actively, framing and asking powerful questions that stimulate operators to reflect on their perceptions of risk.

Week 6 - Direct Communication and Safety Transformation

One particular element that differentiates safety coaching conversations from safety advising is that it is non-judgmental. As a result, we can empathize with operators and understand the way they view risk. While the responsibility for changes that affect safety remains with the operator, we can get them to commit to specific, measurable, and time-bound goals and then follow up on them.

Practice: You will practice how to communicate as an observer so that operators take accountability for transforming their safety behaviors.

How to Get Certified as a Safety Coach?

There is only one thing that differentiates a great coach from others; results. Therefore, the primary focus of the program is applying the learning in your work situations. Meantime, we will help you discover your safety coaching style. The final assignment involves demonstrating your coaching skills for our evaluation and certification.

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They Say

Maxime Wauters

Pilot & Safety Manager

"I learned a lot of new things and certain things with a new interpretation, and I'm applying them every day in my work."

Mike Harris

Engineering Manager

"I'm somewhat smitten with the principles learned in this training and espouse them to others whenever I can."

GENNY MANCUSI, HSE PROFESSIONAL

Learn How Our Safety Coaching Framework Helped Our Students

"Very proud to have recently completed my Certificate of Mastery in Safety Coaching with SafetyRelations. One of the BEST ONLINE COURSES I have ever done in the OHS field. It has taught me how to read, learn and recognize emotions, and showed me the importance of developing self-awareness, active listening, powerful questioning, coaching presence, coaching ethics and trust on a deeper level."

Our Students Represent High-Reliability Organizations Around the World

Learn With Our Master Coach Trainer Dan Newby, PCC

Dan is a Professional Certified Coach, coach trainer and author with more than 20 years of experience in coaching and training coaches. He has more than 8500 hours of coaching experience and has trained thousands of coaches worldwide. He has trained and coached safety leaders and teams from high-reliability industries such as Aerospace and Chemical Manufacturing. Dan’s specialty is developing the human and relational skills necessary to drive world class safety performance.