Forum Interactive - Leadership and Behavioural Health and Safety Training

Forum Interactive is a learning and development consultancy specialising in behavioural safety and safety leadership. We design and deliver tailor-made events of any size as well as learning resources (e.g. interactive training films) all of which can be incorporated into your development programme.

Leading companies within the Oil and Gas and Renewable Energy sectors are looking to Forum Interactive to meet health and safety needs - e.g. Maersk Oil, Shell, Petroleum Geo-Services, Scottish & Southern Energy.

Behavioural safety and leadership training

We create stories about how human behaviour affects the implementation of safety management systems. The stories are based on evidence from industry research, incident reports and experiences from inside your own organisation.

Told through plays, interactive drama or film, these stories are used as the basis for refreshing, challenging learning events that support your people to learn, develop skills and improve performance. These events will:

• Explore values, attitudes and behaviours that underpin an effective safety culture
• Raise awareness, develop motivation and commitment to action at all levels of your organisation
• Develop the management and leadership skills needed to sustain an effective safety culture

Drama-based health & safety training

Our approach makes health and safety meaningful and relevant to people. They identify personal connections with the value and purpose of an effective safety culture. They understand what and why behavioural change is needed. For further information read this article - 'a dramatic approach to health & safety intervention'

You can see for yourself how this works by looking at our soundslide "Influencing the Human Factor"

Drama-based health & safety learning: an evaluation

Since 2006 we have been working with First Group UK and First Group North America to support them to bring HSE into the heart of leadership practice and operations.

"Drama-based learning has had a significant effect on First Group's safety record. Since January 2007 we've had a 47% reduction in time lost through injury and a 30% drop in collision and red signal mistakes. Further, our database shows over 500K injury prevention contacts have been made between employees and managers." Naveed Qamar, Group Safety Director, First Group

In our first event for bus drivers "Jim's Story" was used to show the aftermath of a fatal accident involving a child. Delegates were each given a child's hair bobble to remind them of the experience and what they had learnt.

Tony McNiff (Managing Director, First Cymru Buses Ltd, Wales, UK) attended this event. These comments were made at a conference four years later:

"The event was the first of its kind that I'd been to and I found it extremely moving. I carry the child's hair bobble in my Injury Prevention Book. People often ask me why it's there. I tell them that every time I open the book I see the hair bobble and it reminds me of my daughter and that makes health & safety personal for me - the hair bobble acts as a trigger for further safety conversations."

CONTACT US

Forum Interactive Ltd
4b Howe Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6TD
Scotland, UK
+44 (0)131 478 2368
info@foruminteractive.co.uk
www.foruminteractive.co.uk