Safety Leadership Workshops

Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)

Build psychological safety, speak-up culture, and decision-making under pressure. Interactive workshops that transform safety from compliance to leadership capability.

Safety Leadership Workshops

Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)

Build psychological safety, speak-up culture, and decision-making under pressure. Interactive workshops that transform safety from compliance to leadership capability.

HOP Workshop Approach

From Compliance to System-Level Learning

Incidents rarely happen because rules don’t exist. They happen when the system doesn’t support clear decisions, early speak-up, and rapid learning after failure. These HOP workshops build leadership behaviours and structures that make the system more error-tolerant and more capable of learning quickly.

  • Shared Accountability: Safety is everyone’s job, leadership models the response to failure
  • Psychological Safety: Early, unpunished speak-up to stop unsafe work
  • Clear Decisions: Protocols to decide with incomplete information and time pressure
Workshop Protocols

Proven in High-Stakes Environments

Principles tested in special operations, adapted for high-risk industries across Australia.

24+
years consulting in Oil and Gas, Mining, Government and Private Industry

Watch How HOP Turns Safety into System-Level Learning

Human and Organizational Performance

The 5 Principles of HOP

Shift from “who failed?” to “how does the system learn and improve?”

1

Error is Normal

Error is part of success. Robust systems build in tolerance and mitigate consequences.

2

Blame Fixes Nothing

Blame consumes energy and adds little operational value. Focus on learning.

3

Learning is Vital

Learn from work-as-done. Workers are the experts; strengthen defences through learning.

4

Context Drives Behaviour

Local rationale makes sense in context. Improve the conditions that shape decisions.

5

Leadership Shapes Culture

How leaders respond to failure sets culture and determines improvement.

Workshop Formats

Flexible Programs for Your Schedule

Choose the format that fits your operation.

2–3 Hours

Senior Leaders

Executive overview of HOP, shared accountability, and leader responses that drive learning.

  • Leadership responses that enable learning
4 Hours

Half-Day Intensive

Core principles with immediate application. Ideal for leadership teams and supervisors.

  • Psychological safety protocols
  • Brief-Execute-Debrief cycles
8 Hours • Popular

Full-Day Workshop

Scenario practice, peer coaching, and implementation planning with maximum engagement.

  • Scenario-based role plays
  • Peer coaching sessions
  • Individual action planning
2–5 Days

Multi-Day

Culture transformation with follow-up coaching and sustained behaviour change.

  • Leadership assessment & coaching
  • Team charter development
  • Follow-up sessions (3–6 months)
Learning Outcomes

What Participants Gain

Practical skills you can use on shift the same day.

Error is Normal

Plan for human fallibility and build tolerance so small errors don’t become big consequences.

  • Design work to absorb mistakes without harm
  • Treat errors as data for improvement (not causes)
  • Shift focus from removal of error to defence-in-depth

Blame Fixes Nothing

Create conditions where people speak up early and leaders respond with curiosity.

  • Replace hindsight blame with systems questions
  • Make learning a deliberate response to failure
  • Encourage junior voices to challenge safely

Learning is Vital

Turn day-to-day work into a feedback engine that strengthens defences.

  • Capture how work is really done from worker expertise
  • Run short learn-loops to test and strengthen controls
  • Treat near-misses as leading indicators

Context Drives Behaviour

Understand why good people do what they do given the situation they’re in.

  • Values vs tick-box: align practices with what people believe
  • Surface local rationale (time pressure, boss expectations, production goals)
  • Change the environment to change behaviours
Industries We Serve

High-Risk Industry Expertise

Offshore Oil & Gas

NW Shelf, Bass Strait • Drilling, production, shutdowns & SIMOPS

Mining & Resources

Perth, Brisbane • Underground operations & surface mining

Manufacturing

Melbourne, Adelaide • Heavy industry & processing

Construction

All major cities • Commercial & infrastructure

Energy & Utilities

All states • Power generation & distribution

Healthcare

All major cities AU • Patient and staff safety

Proven Results

Safety Leadership Success Stories

Real organisations achieving breakthrough safety performance through leadership transformation.

Mining Operations • Perth
0
Incidents in 12 Months
38%
Lower Odds of Death
A large study across 358 hospitals in 58 countries found that a Human Organization intervention reduced death from emergency abdominal surgery by 38% compared to hospitals that did not have the intervention.
Ref: World Health Organisation 2008
Manufacturing • Melbourne
70%
Fewer Workplace Accidents
6
Weeks to First Impact
Companies with executives that actively engage in safety leadership report 70% fewer workplace accidents.
Ref: Center for Safety and Health Sustainability, 2020
Common Questions

HOP Workshop FAQ

A leadership approach that learns from work-as-done, builds psychological safety, and improves the system rather than blaming individuals.
It blends Navy SEAL discipline, safety and risk engineering protocols with practical business leadership—prioritising shared ownership, speak-up culture and decisions under pressure, not just compliance.
Executives and C-Suite, Safety managers, operations leaders, supervisors, HR and senior management—plus frontline leaders who shape day-to-day culture.
A proactive model that considers risk at concept and design stage so hazards are engineered out rather than managed later on site.
Senior Leaders (2–3h), Half-Day (4h), Full-Day (8h), Multi-Day (2–5 days). We tailor agendas to your hazards, shift patterns and operational constraints.
Globally, On-site across Australia, virtual, or hybrid.
Yes. We start with a rapid discovery—prior incidents, workflows, risk profile—and adapt scenarios and language to match your environment.

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Book a free 15-minute discussion to select the best format. Available on-site, virtual, and hybrid.

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