E-learning

Behavioural Safety Training encourages employees to work proactively and together to improve safety, helping them understand how their attitudes and perceptions directly influence the creation and maintenance of a safe working environment.

• Uses a powerful real‑world case study to highlight the serious consequences of safety failures, demonstrating how individual actions can impact many people and making the learning meaningful and memorable.
• Shares practical techniques to help build a strong safety culture where everyone takes ownership, encouraging employees to actively contribute to a safer workplace.
• CPD accredited and fully SCORM compliant training.
• Designed by qualified and experienced fire, health, and safety professionals with extensive backgrounds in developing effective training solutions.
• Behaviour‑based safety training can be completed online at a pace and time that suits each participant.
• Interactive content is used throughout to maintain engagement.
• Multiple‑choice quizzes allow learners to check their understanding as they progress.
• End‑of‑section summaries reinforce key messages and support knowledge retention.

By the end of the Behavioural Safety Training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the core concepts and principles behind behavioural safety.
• Understand why a strong, positive safety culture is essential in the workplace.
• Recognise the impact that unsafe behaviours can have on individuals, teams, and the wider organisation.
• Use behavioural safety approaches to help reduce risk and improve overall workplace safety.

1. Case study

A real‑world example is used to highlight why behavioural safety matters, showing how one individual’s unsafe decision can have serious consequences for many others.

2. What is behavioural safety?

An introduction to behavioural safety, explaining how it focuses on encouraging safe actions while identifying and reducing risky behaviours.

3. Benefits of promoting behavioural safety

An exploration of how behavioural safety benefits both employees and organisations, alongside a discussion of common factors that contribute to workplace accidents.

4. Why preventing accidents matters

An examination of the moral, financial, and legal reasons for preventing workplace accidents, supported by lessons drawn from the case study.

5. Learning from incidents

A breakdown of the underlying causes of accidents and the key lessons that can be learned to prevent similar events in the future.

6. The role of culture in behavioural safety

An overview of how workplace culture influences attitudes and behaviours around safety, including leadership commitment, peer influence, communication, and productivity pressures.

7. Building a strong safety culture

Actions organisations can take to strengthen behavioural safety, such as leading by example, encouraging reporting, providing ongoing training, recognising positive behaviours, and prioritising safety in decision‑making.

8. Unsafe behaviours that lead to accidents

Examples of common unsafe behaviours and how they increase the likelihood of incidents occurring.

9. Improving behavioural safety

Practical approaches to improving behavioural safety, including leadership accountability, effective use of resources, robust policies and strategies, and employee empowerment.

10. The importance of worker involvement

How actively involving employees supports the safety management system and ways to encourage worker participation.

Why organisations that engage both leaders and employees are better positioned to adapt to change and develop effective risk management solutions.

11. Applying behavioural safety techniques

Guidance on using key techniques such as observation and feedback, safety conversations, and near‑miss reporting.

12. Sustaining behavioural safety improvements

Strategies for maintaining long‑term safety awareness by embedding safety into everyday activities, encouraging ownership, and reinforcing positive behaviours through feedback and communication.

This also covers how to promote reporting of near misses and unsafe behaviours, investigate incidents, analyse data, and maintain ongoing engagement.

Can the course content be adapted to our specific workplace safety needs?

While the core elements of the Behavioural Safety Training course remain consistent to ensure compliance requirements are met, we can collaborate with you to include industry‑relevant examples and case studies that reflect your organisation’s particular safety risks and challenges. Please get in touch with us to discuss available customisation options.