Safety management, particularly in the construction industry, has become a process of practices driven by the completion of forms and the seemingly endless production of procedures. Companies are being left disillusioned, wondering why extensive efforts and investments are not being converted into safer workplaces.
Current global research has found that more mature industries, such as the airline industry, chemical, and oil and gas industries have left the construction industry behind. They have discovered and believe that a company requires an effective safety culture in order to bring their safety management systems alive and functioning as they are intended.
The Topflight Safety Culture Development Program is a state-of-the-art safety program developed by one of Australia’s leading construction safety experts, Michael Walsh. The program has been developed using the latest research from the world’s leading authorities on
safety culture.
Topflight assists companies move to a level of safety practice found frequently in other industries but rarely in construction. In fact, most construction companies or individual construction projects do not have safety cultures. Many rely on the existence of manuals and procedures to keep them safe, only to discover during incident investigations and audits, that they have not been implemented as designed. Unfortunately discovery at this stage may have dire consequences. Topflight provides the missing cultural ingredient to make systems work to create
a safer workplace.
Topflight takes the company on a journey that turns the myriad of safety policies and value statements into a real and recognisable safety culture, based on agreed practices consistently applied across all levels of an organisation or project. The program effectively challenges construction companies or major projects to develop safety cultures like those in high reliability organisations such as the
airline industry.
