Advanced Safety Professional Practice

Safety professionals don’t make many of the key decisions that influence the safety of work in organisations and to be effective they need stakeholders to listen to their advice. For this reason, we view the ability to create influence as the cornerstone capability for any safety professional to be effective. In this level we cover how to effectively build relationships, use humble inquiry, coach others and have difficult conversations in a constructive way.

Safety professionals need to understand and foresee risk within their organisation and also drive proactive outcomes. In this level we develop skills in risk psychology, risk assessment, risk reduction and control effectiveness.

Safety professionals need to be able to embed repeatable business processes to institutionalise the management of work and safety in their organisation. In this level we develop skills in management systems, prescribing work, identifying and removing safety clutter and assurance.

To make a ‘safety journey’ a reality, safety professionals need to be able to lead, drive and facilitate organisational improvement. In this level we develop skills in change management, diagnosing opportunities, building strategy and evaluating improvement.

Safety professionals need to be key contributors to organisational learning by leveraging learning opportunities. In this level we develop skills in understanding work, incident investigation, learning teams and monitoring performance.