RECOA.EU - Renewable Construction Academy

The Safety Culture Specialist Course gives you, the learner, the tools to shape a culture that leads to enduring high performance. It provides a roadmap for senior leadership and leaders alike to foster and keep up a high-performance safety culture.

The methods described in the course operationalise safety culture in a way that has never been done before to achieve High Reliability Organisation performance. This approach makes safety prevention a natural part of daily work just like the commercial airlines and nuclear industries (these two industries are deemed to be HRO)

HROs are described as those organisations that: 

• Create an operating environment that detects problems early and are always responded to in order to prevent serious incidents. 
• Work in high-risk environments with high efficiency.
• Achieve extraordinary safety performance, functioning without serious mishap over long periods of time.   

The course brings everyone in the organisation together with easy-to-follow safety strategies, a set of simple safety tactics and new performance measures that collectively result in a high-performance safety culture.

What You Can Expect

The course is broken down into 3 modules.

Each module takes approximately 3-4 hours to complete. 

The course follows the journey of a contractor, Great Wind Turbines, and their CEO Richard Wilkins through the contractor QHSE qualification process for the Atlantis Offshore Wind farm project off the southeastern coast of Vietnam and then being blindsided by two serious incidents.

The course takes the learner through their story of transformation to achieve HRO performance. This allows the learner a firsthand experience from the contractor’s perspective. 

While this is fictionalised it is based on a real-life large-scale energy infrastructure project. The story arc: 

• Positions learners for success by: 
  • Clearly articulates gaps with current safety performance, 
  • Provides a direct line of sight to improvement, and 
  • Informs decision-making and motivates improvement. 
  • Achieve extraordinary safety performance functioning without serious mishap over long periods of time.   
• Provides practical information with creating a positively evolving safety culture to achieve HRO performance:
  • Focusing on what matters most, 
  • Consistently executing well on HRO fundamentals, and 
  • Provision of accountability with a new set of performance measures that meets the scientific criteria to ensure valid and reliable indicators that can be trusted to provide assurance. 
• Adheres to Vroom’s model for taking knowledge into action: 
  • States what needs to be done,
  • Provides the tools, knowledge, and skills necessary to be successful, and
  • Delivers material business value.