Build a safety culture that endures. Learn how leadership, trust, and employee engagement form the core of a workplace where safety is lived, not just listed.
This course, "Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Strong Foundation," explores the critical difference between safety culture and climate. You will learn why a strong safety culture is more than just compliance—it drives performance, reduces incidents, and saves lives. We'll delve into how culture develops through leadership, everyday behavior, and interactions, and how to recognize its visible signs.
The course highlights the essential role of leadership in modeling safe behavior and fostering trust. Discover how safety is a shared responsibility, influenced by everyone from frontline workers to senior management, and learn strategies for building a blame-free environment where psychological safety encourages open reporting and continuous learning from incidents and near misses.
You will also gain practical skills in measuring safety culture using leading indicators, perception surveys, and maturity models, understanding what your data truly reveals. The course emphasizes engaging employees effectively, leveraging tools like inspections, audits, and observations to drive improvement, and navigating resistance to change.
By the end of this course, you will understand:
Learn how to actively nurture a safety culture that doesn't just exist, but thrives, ensuring a safer, more supportive, and higher-performing workplace for everyone.
Trainer | Mentor | Performance Driven | Hands-On Trouble Shooter
John Duplessis, B.Sc., CRSP, is a recognized leader in Occupational Health & Safety (OH\&S), dedicated to helping organizations build safer, more resilient workplaces. With over 30 years of experience in high-risk sectors—including oil & gas, construction, green energy, and manufacturing—John has built a reputation for translating complex safety legislation and standards into clear, practical strategies that drive measurable results. An internationally respected trainer and consultant, John has delivered programs across Canada and abroad on topics such as ISO 45001 implementation, incident investigation, safety leadership, and building strong safety cultures. His approach emphasizes leadership at every level—engaging executives, supervisors, and front-line workers alike—to foster systems that balance top-down accountability with bottom-up input. John’s career includes senior safety roles in major energy and construction firms, as well as decades of consulting, auditing, and mentoring.
