Understanding and influencing safety behaviour - From insight to sustainable behavioural change

This training explores safety leadership in greater depth by providing leaders with practical tools to understand and drive lasting behavioural change in the workplace.

Banzai!*

Duration: half a day

Participants: Maximum of 12 participants

Supervisors: 1 Samurai trainer

Target group: manager (can also be applied more broadly, depending on the context)

*cry from the samurai when he (she) achieves a goal (read: ‘output’)

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In brief

Understanding how behaviour truly develops and changes
Gaining insight into safety behaviour in the workplace
Using practical models to analyse and influence behaviour
Moving from intentional to effective safety behaviour

What?

Why don’t people always do what they know is safe?
In this training, we delve into the heart of human behaviour. We start with insights from behavioural psychology and apply them to safety in the workplace.

Participants learn how behaviour develops, why good intentions are often not enough, and which factors determine whether someone acts safely or not.

We work with two powerful models to better understand and influence behaviour, with a specific focus on the impact of consequences.

The emphasis is on practical application: participants learn how to effectively steer safety behaviour in their day-to-day role as a manager.

Contents:

Understanding how behaviour develops
Understanding why knowledge and intention alone are not enough to bring about behavioural change
Gaining insight into behaviour
Influencing behaviour in practice
Understanding the role of consequences as a lever for behavioural change
Applying these insights to specific workplace situations

Why?

Many safety initiatives focus on rules, procedures, and knowledge.

But behaviour does not change through knowledge alone.
Behaviour is shaped by habits, context, and what people experience as a result of their actions. By understanding these mechanisms, managers can steer safety efforts in a far more targeted and effective way.

This training helps you take the step from “we KNOW what is safe” to “we also DO what is safe”.

Banzai!

After this training:

You will understand how behaviour develops and why it is often difficult to change
You will be able to analyse safety behaviour
You will know how to influence behaviour in the workplace
You will recognise the impact of consequences on behaviour
You will have practical tools for managing behaviour in the workplace