1.1 Assess the importance of health and safety culture within an organisation.

Unit Reference Number

Y/617/8543

Unit Title

Promoting a Positive Health and Safety Culture

Unit Level

6

Number of Credits

6

Total Qualification Time (TQT)

60 hours

Guided Learning Hours (GLH)

20 hours

Mandatory / Optional

Mandatory

Unit Grading Structure

Pass / Fail

Learning Outcomes- The learner will:

Assessment Criteria- The learner can:

Indicative Content

1. Understand key organisational factors that influence the health and safety culture in the workplace.

1.1 Assess the importance of health and safety culture within an organisation.

1.2 Evaluate the promoting factors and potential barriers to health and safety culture in an organisation.

1.3 Explain how to communicate and engage with staff to promote positive health and safety awareness and behaviour.

1.4 Produce a plan to promote a positive health and safety culture.

• Promoting factors e.g., management buy-in, leadership, health and safety agenda, access to information, consultation, training, staff empowerment, goals and objectives.
• Potential barriers e.g., organisational change/ uncertainty, criticism of organisational strategy, incoherent/non-consultative decision making, inconsistent internal communications, low staff morale, low levels of trust in management.
• Importance of communication plan at all organisational levels/ job roles/ departments, ongoing consultation and ownership.

2. Understand key human factors that influence healthand safety performance and behaviour in the workplace.

2.1 Outline the human factors that contribute to individual behaviour.

2.2 Explain human perception of risk and the classification of human failure.

2.3 Assess the impact of job factors and organisational factors on human reliability.

2.4 Outline methods of improving individual human reliability.

2.5 Evaluate the optimum conditions of behavioural change and behaviour change courses and programmes.

• Impact of attitude, aptitude and motivation on human behaviour. Impact of individual social class/background, education. Theories of human motivation.
• Human sensory receptors, sensory defects, process of perception of danger, perceptual expectancy, perceptual distortion, causes of perceptual errors, filtering and selectivity in perception. Classifications of human failure.
• Organisational negative and positive factors impacting on human reliability e.g. poor standards, inadequate/adequate communication of policy, clear/unclear job roles/ responsibilities, good/poor planning, sensible or lack of organisational groups, poor/ good communication systems.
• Focused line management to improve reliability, e.g. focus on health, well-being, life balance, motivation, incentives, appraisals, job satisfaction, training, task allocation, etc.
• Behaviour change courses and programmes to suit individual, organisation, targeted behaviour.

3. Understand the impact of leadership, structure and consultation on the health and safety culture of an organisation.

3.1 Assess the impact of different leadership types on health and safety performance.

3.2 Outline the structure and function of a range of organisation types and the benefits and limitations of each.

3.3 Explain the challenges of third party management in regard to maintenance of health and safety.

3.4 Explain the nature and importance of formal and informal consultation with workers.

• Leadership styles and their impact on performance: coaching, visionary, servant, autocratic, laissez-faire, democratic, pace- setter, transformational. Relationship of leadership with staff engagement. Leadership implications for health and safety senior managers.
• Relationship between organisation types and structures with leading a positive health and safety culture. Using leadership to align the needs and objectives of the individual with the needs of the organisation.
• Managing third party stakeholders and contractors to ensure adherence to health and safety policy, sources plans, specific challenges.
• Responsibilities for, and influences of formal and informal consultation: Worker representatives, safety boards/committees/groups, formal consultation, team meetings, intranet, the health and safety practitioner.

4. Be able to develop a strategyto improve the health and safety culture of an organisation.

4.1 Outline techniques and assessment criteria used to assess the health and safety culture of an organisation.

4.2 Critically evaluate the current health and safety culture of an organisation by analysing assessment data.

4.3 Recommend measures to improve health and safety culture of an organisation.

4.4 Develop a strategy to implement recommended measures for improving the health and safety culture of an organisation.

4.5 Produce a business case to support the improvement strategy.

• Assessment methodologies, e.g. climate survey, questionnaires, interviews.
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis. Reporting against assessment criteria/ measures of a positive culture. Identifying areas for improvement in culture, priorities against organisation needs and objectives, recommendations against cost, resource, priority. Strategic planning, communications, timelines, expectations, resource allocation, roles and responsibility, governance, budget.