Improving Culture through OHS Training

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Improving Culture through OHS Training
www.nsca.org.au
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Safety Culture
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• Values, attitudes and perceptions
• Improves performance reduces injuries
• Senior management commitment
• Shared care and concern
• Realistic flexible norms
• Organisational learning and reflection

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Safety Training
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• Legislative requirement under duty of care
• Component of OHSMS
• Can be boring, repetitive, unengaging
  ineffective
• Learning objectives that dont relate
• Generic examples in resources
• Delivery presentation styles that dont
  relate
• E Learning
• Cost

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New Training Methods
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• Adapting (school) education pedagogies
• Changing development and delivery styles
• Utilising relevant resources
• Consulting with workers to assess learning needs
• Identifying and promoting new technology

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Communities of Safety Practice
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• Situated learning
• Inclusive of workers and management
• Feeds off experience
• Identifies and uses individual safety perceptions

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Current Research
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• Australian Construction Industry
• Identifying attitudes and perceptions to safety
  training
• Qualitative research
• Utilising attitudes to improve development and
  delivery of training

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Conclusion
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• Safety training can improve culture BUT.
• Encourage
• Support
• Invest
• Professional practitioners and researchers

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