Workshop · WPHSE 2027
Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Culture
Safety excellence cannot be achieved through procedures, inspections and compliance alone.
- FormatPractical workshop
- TrackLeadership and Building Safety Culture
- PresenterDr. Eng. Maged Mohsen Elkassaby, PhD(c), M.Eng, CSP, CMIOSH
- DateDuring the conference, March 28–31, 2027
About the Workshop
Safety excellence cannot be achieved through procedures, inspections and compliance alone. It requires leaders who influence behaviour, build trust and turn safety expectations into everyday decisions.
This practical workshop examines how leadership behaviour shapes safety culture and performance, moving participants from traditional safety management to proactive safety leadership: commitment and accountability, visible and felt leadership, psychological safety and speaking up, human factors, leading indicators, and learning from incidents rather than blame.
The workshop is grounded in practical experience from major programmes and projects, including an anonymised leadership case from a live operational environment and a digitalised HSE assurance benchmark involving 9,000+ observations and approximately 75% faster reporting and analysis. Every participant leaves with a leadership self-assessment and a 90-day action plan.
Workshop Objectives
- Distinguish safety leadership from traditional safety management.
- Recognise how leadership behaviour affects safety performance.
- Build psychological safety, trust and reporting of hazards and near misses.
- Use leading indicators to identify weaknesses before incidents occur.
- Shift incident investigation from blame to organisational learning.
- Develop a personal 90-day safety leadership action plan.
Target Audience
Workshop Contents
Senior and middle managers, project managers, HSE managers and professionals, engineers, supervisors, safety committee members and anyone responsible for influencing safety performance.
- Safety Leadership vs. Safety Management
- From Compliance to Safety Culture
- Leadership Commitment and Accountability
- Visible and Felt Leadership
- Leadership Influence on Safety Behaviour
- Safety Culture and Organisational Maturity
- Psychological Safety, Trust and Speaking Up
- Worker Engagement and Participation
- Human Factors and Human Performance
- Leading and Lagging Safety Indicators
- Learning from Incidents and Near Misses
- Moving from Blame to Organisational Learning
- Leadership Communication and Decision-Making
- Continuous Improvement and Safety Excellence
- Practical Safety Leadership Self-Assessment
- Developing a 90-Day Safety Leadership Action Plan
What You Will Gain
Benefits for Learners
- Distinguish safety leadership from traditional safety management
- Recognise how leadership behaviour affects safety performance
- Strengthen employee engagement, trust and ownership
- Use leading indicators to identify weaknesses before incidents occur
- Apply practical techniques for influencing safety behaviour and culture
- Develop a personal leadership action plan for the workplace
Benefits for Employers
- Stronger management ownership of safety
- Greater workforce participation and willingness to speak up
- Improved alignment between leadership decisions and safety objectives
- Earlier identification of emerging risks
- Stronger organisational learning from incidents and observations
- A practical pathway toward a proactive and sustainable safety culture
About the Presenter
Dr. Eng. Maged Mohsen Elkassaby, PhD(c), M.Eng, CSP, CMIOSH
HSE Director
JOD Advisory International & JOD Academy — IOSH Approved Training Provider (#5531)
Saudi Arabia
Interested in attending?
Contact the conference team for the workshop date and how to register.