Facilitating Safety and Health Committees/Teams

Facilitating Safety and Health Committees/Teams
Comprehensive Site Assessments and Auditing

This course is a comprehensive full-day session that will deliver the required competencies to develop and deploy safety work teams, preparing them to tackle the toughest of opportunities within any organizations.

The main goal of the Facilitating Safety and Health Committees/Teams Course is to impart those necessary skills to assist organizational leaders, line management and informal leaders to develop traditional safety committee structures into High Performing Teams. Understanding and applying the key steps to building the team will pave the road for a successful journey through the various stages of team development. In addition, meet OSHA voluntary guidelines for employee involvement and hopefully lead to increased safety, morale and quality, translating into increased profitability.

The course begins with defining the differences between traditional safety committees and safety work teams. Understanding the differences will allow you to identify why specific processes must be in place to facilitate moving to a high performing team structure. From there, the course maps out methods from evaluating an organizations safety culture to forming the team to working through difficult situations, otherwise known as “storming.” Finally, the course will round-out the four stages of team development by discussing stages three and four, norming and performing.

The objectives of this one-day course include:

• Opening you mind to a new way of thinking!
• Define the differences between a traditional safety committee and high performing work team.
• Understand the various phases of team development.
• Describe the elements of participative leadership and how to recognize leadership ability.
• Articulate the steps involved in holding an effective meeting.
• Understand what the most important component to making any team successful... or fail!
• Discuss how to measure your teams effectiveness from meeting to meeting.
• Describe how to capitalize on the synergy of the group and capitalize on individual talents.
• Communicate the various tools available to measure your safety culture... from leading to lagging indicators.