That’s why we offer speaking engagements curated and led by our team of specialists. Designed to empower executives and leaders while fostering a community of lifelong learners, these opportunities serve as a platform for essential safety conversations.
Explore our range of topics
Positive Safety
Positive Safety
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
What does safety look like in your organisation? Is safety viewed as a cost or an opportunity? Are employees seen as the problem or the solution?
It’s easy to fall prey to the idea that safety takes too long, costs too much or just gets in the way of getting the job done. But what if we looked at safety as a form of currency that we can use to invest in the things that matter most.
Join us as we flip the traditional safety narrative on its head and create a space where people share a values driven desire to do great work in which quality and safety are paramount, and people are intrinsically motivated to invest in the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.
Discussion Topics
- The definition of positive safety
- Using safety as an anchor for cultural change
- What a positive safety culture looks like
- How you can start implementing a positive safety culture in your organisation
Learning From Disaster: How a Positive Safety Approach Saves Lives
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
Behind some of the worst safety disasters of our time lies a predictable array of causes, many of which speak to the culture that surrounds safety.
These terrible events show us that successfully managing risk and protecting people’s lives doesn’t just involve having robust systems and controls in place. Equally as important is the influence of leadership, the quality of communication and the attitudes that drive the way safety is done.
Join us as we contemplate what happens when culture goes wrong, and how a positive safety approach is necessary to avoid future disasters.
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
- Using Positive Safety to drive positive change
- Understanding the physical, social and psychological dimensions of safety
- The role of the board in empowering a positive safety approach
- The role of senior leaders in demonstrating a commitment to safety
Safety Culture & Leadership
How to Become a Safety Culture Change Agent
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
How do you build the case for change and influence up the line?
Transforming safety culture is a big job. Cultures can take years to turn around and only do so with targeted focus and investment by leaders. Executive alignment and commitment both in principle and in practice are required.
Join us to explore how to build the case for safety culture change, align critical stakeholders and manage common objections.
Discussion Topics
- How the psychology of change influences stakeholder engagement
- How to gain buy-in from senior leaders
- How to manage common stakeholder objections or roadblocks
- A practical step-by-step roadmap for setting up a cultural transformation project for success
Foundations of Effective Safety Leadership
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
When it comes to driving a positive safety culture and safety performance excellence, it’s hard to deny that strong, effective leadership is crucial. Yet, only 1 in 4 leaders demonstrate strong safety leadership behaviours, according to a recent study of 8,747 employees across heavy industry. The implications for safety performance, compliance and reporting are concerning.
This session will explore the insights from the study and offer key strategies for organisations seeking to invest in safety leadership development.
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
- The state of safety leadership across high-risk industries, including patterns across industry, age, tenure and position
- Where leaders are performing well, and where areas for development exist
- How to improve safety behaviours and overall safety performance through effective safety leadership
8 Steps to Leading Safety Culture Transformation
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
It’s no secret that culture change is hard. But why exactly is it that so many businesses struggle to achieve long-term change, despite a hefty investment in safety?
While it’s true that workforce training, process improvement and leadership development can all improve safety performance, a lack of deliberate change strategy is often the reason businesses fail to see sustainable results. And, more often than not, when these one-off initiatives find their way into the graveyard of failed safety projects, they cause more harm than good. When the next attempt at change is made, workforce cynicism and resistance make creating long-term safety culture improvements even harder.
For the past 20 years, Sentis has helped hundreds of clients across the world successfully facilitate safety culture change projects. In this engagement, we share our lessons learned and 8 clear steps to help you facilitate sustained safety culture transformation in your business.
Discussion Topics
- The science behind the brain’s natural response to change
- How to challenge this instinct and energise people to embrace change rather than resist it
- A simple 8 step process for leading safety culture transformation
Using Recognition to Drive Improved Safety Performance
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
How confident are you that leaders are using recognition effectively to reward and encourage safe behaviours within their teams?
Recognition of positive safety performance by leaders helps create a positive and productive safety climate. Leaders who fail to recognise employees for positive safety performance, or do so ineffectually, will struggle to influence their employees to demonstrate helpful safety behaviours.
8,212 participants across six industries rated their leaders’ effectiveness against eight safety leadership competencies as part of a larger Safety Climate Survey. Upwards ratings of safety leadership showed that leaders’ performance was rated lowest for ‘Recognising’, a transactional leadership competency that focuses on recognising and rewarding employees based on the achievement of high safety performance. Specifically, 89% of workers reported that their leader struggled to display effective recognition for strong safety performance and only 1 in 10 workers held positive perceptions of their leader’s recognising ability. This is concerning as ineffective recognition can have unintentional consequences and drive unhelpful safety behaviours that put workers at increased risk.
Discussion Topics
- The concept of effective recognition
- How to leverage intrinsic motivation to create long-term, positive safety culture change
Creating Meaningful and Measurable Lead Indicators for Safety
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
If connecting safety to commercial business outcomes is a key skill for the modern safety leader, why is it that only 11% of businesses are actively using lead indicators to measure safety success?
In this presentation, we will explore how the best in the business track safety performance with their executive’s full support. We will also provide a practical starting point for safety leaders in the mining industry as well as examples of lead indicators in practice.
Discussion Topics
- Popular success measurements and metrics
- The challenge with traditional lag indicators and why they will always have a place in safety measurement
- Why establishing a benchmark for lead indicators is so hard
- Considerations for developing meaningful and measurable lead indicators for mining businesses
- Examples of lead metrics that resonate with senior stakeholders
- How to use metrics to build a case for broader safety culture change and improved worker outcomes
Safety Leadership in Action: The Role of Safety Leadership in Creating a Positive Safety Culture
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
Organisations continue to struggle with the age-old safety culture challenge – how do we empower employees to work safely, not because they have to, but because they want to?
A recent study of 73 operational sites across 8 industries in 9 countries found that the major difference between positive and negative safety cultures is leadership. Leaders, through the way they interact with others at work, exert powerful effects over the way that employees think and act. Helping leaders to understand their safety leadership ability enables them to capitalise on their strengths and develop their areas of opportunity, and in turn, positively influence their organisation’s safety culture.
Discussion Topics
- The interplay between physical, social and psychological safety in an organisation’s process of creating a positive safety culture
- A review of the research on the role of safety leadership in creating a positive safety culture
- The brain and leadership: how leadership impacts team members’ ability to see and manage risk, connect, collaborate , contribute, feel safe and be safe
- The psychology of influence and key leadership tools to apply in leading a positive safety culture
Psychosocial Safety
Helping Your Leaders Understand and Address Psychosocial Risks
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
“Not surprisingly, the most important influence on psychological safety is the nearest boss” — Amy Edmondson
The modern workplace has changed dramatically in recent years with an increased emphasis on the psychological wellbeing of employees. With recent changes in legislation and regulatory compliance obligations, companies can no longer ignore the importance of psychosocial risk management and its impact on productivity, morale, employee retention and physical safety.
Join us to we explore strategies for organisations to simplify the process of psychosocial risk management, ensuring a safer, healthier and more productive workplace.
Discussion Topics
- The unseen hazards and invisible injuries that can impact your employees’ wellbeing
- The impact of psychosocial risk on physical safety
- How to empower your leaders to promote wellbeing and reduce psychosocial risks
- Best practice approaches to integrating psychosocial risk assessments into your current safety framework
- Proactive strategies to manage psychosocial safety and stay ahead of the curve
A Masterclass in Psychosocial Safety
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
5-6 hours
“Creating a psychologically safe workplace takes more than a policy or program. It takes a culture of respect, trust and accountability.” — Michael P. Leiter
If you are looking to improve your organisation’s approach to psychosocial risk management and shift from a compliance-focused mindset to one that prioritises culture and opportunity, this masterclass will equip you with the knowledge and tools to build a positive safety culture that fosters wellbeing, productivity and inclusiveness.
Join us as we share practical insights and strategies to help drive a positive psychosocial safety culture transformation.
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
- A deeper understanding of the cultural drivers and organisational benefits of psychosocial safety
- The ability to identify the key leadership behaviours and attitudes that promote psychosocial safety
- Understanding the role of team members in fostering a positive safety culture
- The ability to identify the organisational enablers required to embed and integrate psychosocial safety in the workplace
- The ability to identify the key components of an effective strategy and map out the process to implement it
Critical Risk
Operationalising Critical Controls Through In-field Interactions
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
The integrity and success of most critical risk management systems is often determined by the quality of safety leadership within the business. Not only do leaders need to ensure that the frontline workforce is adequately enabled to implement the appropriate critical controls at the task level, but they also need to support their workers through regular in-field reviews and verifications to ensure controls are present and effective.
These infield interactions require leaders to have a mix of technical and interpersonal skills, to be able to coach the workforce to build critical control knowledge, as well as inviting open and collaborative discussions when gaps are identified, or improvement ideas are raised.
Discussion Topics
- The role of the safety leadership within a critical risk management system
- Interpersonal communication strategies for an effective infield critical control verification process
- Understanding and responding to absent or ineffective controls
- Encouraging continuous improvement within the work planning and safety management system
An Exploration of Incident and Near Miss Reporting
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour
Incident reporting is a common feature of workplace health and safety, however trends across incidents are rarely considered. A major Australian utilities company sought to strengthen their approach to the management of high-risk activities through an in-depth review of all incidents that had serious injury or fatality potential (SIFp). The utilities company engaged Sentis to undertake a Meta Incident Analysis (MIA) of 685 incidents and near misses reported over a two-year period. Incidents were classified for SIFp and 114 incidents/near misses progressed to the next stage for a detailed analysis identifying the effectiveness of critical controls and contributing human and local context and organisational factors.
The results indicated that the organisation invested a disproportionate level of resources, time and effort on low consequence incidents. The analysis highlighted issues with attention, supervision and procedures to name a few. In addition, the MIA process uncovered opportunities to strengthen the presence of critical controls in certain high-risk areas.
The data informed the organisation that high-risk work must be designed to accommodate the natural variation in human reliability and that it is important to create “nudges” through risk assessments, critical control verifications and greater engagement of leaders and crews, specifically in critical control management.
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
- Learnings from a real-world case study that provides data-driven insights of the human, local and organisational factors contributing to incidents with SIF potential
- The steps taken to categorise and analyse this incident data and the initiatives currently being implemented by the organisation as a result
Can't find what you're looking for?
We can customise a speaking engagement to suit.
Face-to-face or remote
1 sentis consultant
1 hour or half day
Tailored Industry Insights
Dive deep into industry-specific insights, ensuring every topic is relevant and directly applicable to your unique safety landscape.
Safety Process Integration
We contextualise theoretical concepts with your existing safety processes, ensuring practical, safe and applicable learning.
Department-Specific
Our speaking engagements are as diverse as your team. We offer contextualised scenarios and examples that are relevant to various departments, ensuring that every team member finds value and relevance in our sessions.
Cultural Integration
We don’t just speak; we resonate. Our presentations are infused with your company’s values and cultural tools, ensuring a deep and meaningful connection with your team’s ethos.
Aligned with Business Goals
Our speaking engagements are not just talks; they’re strategic tools designed to align perfectly with your business objectives.
Branding Alignment
Experience a seamless integration of your company’s branding, reinforcing your corporate identity among your team.
