Awareness Training

Occupational Safety Culture for Managers and Supervisors

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General Objectives:

Characterise Occupational Safety Culture and the role of managers and supervisors in maximising health and safety performance.

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Specific Objectives:

• Characterise Occupational Safety Culture;
• Recognise the different types of culture and their impact on organisational safety;
• Characterise the role of managers and supervisors in maximising health and safety performance;
• Identify the characteristics of communication applied to occupational safety activities;
• Identify ways and good practice for engaging employees and promoting a learning culture

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Course Content

• Meaning of Safety Culture;
• Different types of culture and their impact on organisational safety;
• The roles of managers and supervisors in maximising health and safety performance;
• Characteristics of an effective conversation in the activity Walking & Talking;
• Two-way communication;
• Employee Engagement;
• Learning culture;
• Attitude towards blame;
• Examples of good practice.

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Training Format

Online, by video conference (Zoom platform).

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Training Methods

The training will use expository, interrogative and active methods.

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Learning Assessment Methods

Learning will be assessed continuously using the interrogative method.

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Learning resources / Facilities and equipment

To take part in the workshop, trainees need access to a computer and the internet, with an up-to-date browser .

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Target Audience

Managers; HR Managers; Supervisors.

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Total Course Duration

4 h

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Specific Features of the Training

This training entitles participants to a training certificate issued through the SIGO platform.

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Date

See the schedule  here

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Investment

95.00 euros per trainee (final price/VAT-exempt)

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Trainer

Fátima Valério

Degree in Agro-Industrial Engineering from Instituto Superior de Agronomia – Technical University of Lisbon (1981/86)

Master’s in Food Science and Technology – Technical University of Lisbon (1991/1996)

Postgraduate degree in Safety Engineering – Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (2004)

Senior Safety Technician – certified by ISHST (CAP no. 30151002RC5)

Worked in industry (1986 – 2013) for a multinational, holding several positions: Production, Technical Organisation, Environment, Occupational Safety and Health, Quality and Food Safety, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and Manufacturing Excellence Manager Europe

Senior Trainer/Consultant with diverse experience across different sectors, delivering projects in TPM, Environment, Innovation Project Management – NP 4456:2007, NP 4458:2007 and NP 4457:2007, Internal Audits – NP EN ISO 19011, and Social Responsibility – SA 8000, ISO 26000, NP 4469-1, Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH, ADR, Occupational Accident Investigation, Seveso, ATEX, Behavioural Safety, Machinery and Work Equipment Directives, etc.), Quality, and Food Safety (HACCP/CODEX, ISO 22000, ISO TS 22002-4, FSSC, BRC, IFS)

e-trainer

Has given talks at several higher education institutions: University of the Algarve, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém

External supervisor of undergraduate and master’s final projects

Member of CT 42 SC4 – Occupational Safety and Health

Member of CTA 038 – Food Safety Management System

Portuguese Order of Engineers professional licence no. 29662 and Professional Aptitude Certificate no. EDF 7309/98 DL