Safety

Since 1996, we have been creating unique HSE workshops and programmes. We are very proud of our partnerships in safety, including our work alongside Step Change, OPITO, and IOSH.

We operate in a wide range of industries, including oil & gas, construction, nuclear, road, rail, airports, distilleries, facilities management, shipping and local government.

We use a range of techniques that are both behavioural and research-based to understand the psychology of ‘at risk’ behaviours.

All our plays and workshops focus on behaviour and consider the impact of human factors on safety and can last from 45 minutes to a full day or more. In using a variety of methods to demonstrate and highlight the behaviours & consequences, we can take our audience to the heart of an issue quickly and effectively.

We are interested in all aspects of behavioural or behaviour-based safety training and in sharing good practice wherever possible – from complacency to dynamic risk assessment, frontline intervention to leadership behaviours, personal responsibility & accountability to safety culture.

The structure and dynamic of each programme can be tailored to precisely meet your needs.

Case Study: Exercise Willow

We worked closely with our client to produce a simulation/workshop event which examined not only their understanding of proper emergency procedures, but also the factors which affect human behaviours in times of great stress.

‘Exercise Willow’ was an Emergency Response simulation which gave our client the opportunity to observe, in real time, events which could have involved any one of them as Factory Controllers, Control Room Operators, Senior Managers or Emergency Planning Managers in a Site Emergency Control Centre, and to consider answers to the questions ‘What’s the worst that can happen?’ and ‘How much worse can it get?’.

Following on from that was a real time Gold Command simulated meeting, involving the Chief of Police and representatives from various Government departments and the local Council. Our client’s participants then had to work with them to determine, strategically, what the best course of action was, all the while dealing with escalation injects which were being introduced every 5 minutes.

After all that, they then had to participate in a Press Conference and account for their actions and the subsequent outcomes.

Important outcomes

  • Familiarisation with emergency response procedure
  • Consideration of the wider picture: media, ONR, damage limitation
  • Prioritisation – preserve life, preserve material, preserve crime scene, etc
  • Understanding of the three key questions underlying Chronic Unease:
    • What could go wrong?
    • What’s the worst that can happen?
    • How much worse can it get?
  • Experience of Gold Command and constantly changing circumstances
  • Experience of media and press interrogation and exposure
  • Personal reflection on the event as a whole and identifying personal development actions for sharing with line manager