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Leadership & Safety Culture Programme (L&SC)

Creating inspiring leaders who care

The CEDEP L&SC is an immersive 4-day programme that changes participants’ mindsets to create a positive culture that builds a high-performance and resilient organisation. The programme is dedicated to manufacturing and operations middle and senior managers, who strive to get safety just right and want to create a healthier, more engaged and effective workforce. It is one of our long-standing specialist programmes that has been running since 2008. Participants immerse themselves in a new dimension of thought leadership that mixes cutting-edge science and research with deep experience and practical application to help them create a safety culture within their organisation that reduces costly workplace accidents that are detrimental to productivity.

This transformational leadership journey gives participants the psychology, philosophy and powerful management skills to:

Create inspired, high-performing teams
Develop powerful management skills to become better, more respected leaders
Develop a practical plan with strategies to implement

Main Objectives

Participants learn how to motivate people, influence behaviour, and be an inspiring leader who increases productivity through health and safety. The programme teaches managers from all sectors and industries to rise to the many challenges involved in creating a reliable and positive safety culture that boosts motivation, increases engagement, eliminates workplace accidents, protects the company’s reputation, and really does lead to higher performance. The three pillars of the programme are combined to give participants the mindset, techniques and leadership behaviours to have an immediate, positive and sustainable impact upon their return to the organisation.

Knowledge to nurture and sustain a safety culture and the human factors involved in risk adjustment and decision-making
Skills & Performance to master behavioural economics, engaging stakeholders and leading change
Behaviour from preventing accidents to leadership, safety and stress management

Learning Journey

In a peer group learning environment, our faculty of global thought leaders take participants through a series of workshops to learn the practical tools to create and sustain a ‘culture of care’ in their organisation, communicate the importance of a proactive safety culture, and build awareness of the safety challenges in today’s complex business world. Participants will explore different aspects of safety in the workplace and acquire the new management skills to drive thriving organisations filled with inspired and committed workers that respect their managers and each other.

Become more aware
Reduce workplace accidents
Increase team motivation
Learn how to positively influence people
Lead forward with the right-mindset
Create a ‘culture of care’
Take away effective tools to use immediately.

Participants will work on a specific plan for their organisation to establish safety goals, develop resources, ensure team participation, identify and assess hazards, and prevent and control risks. Thereby, giving them a practical action plan to have an instant impact in their workplace.

Andrew sharman

programme director

Best-selling author of ten books on safety leadership and organizational culture, President of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (2019-2020) and Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Leadership & Management (2016-2020). Founder and Chairman of the One Percent Safer Foundation, and Managing Partner of the international culture and leadership consultancy, RMS, Chairman of EHSCongress.com, the leading environment, health and safety conference in Europe.

‘It’s the responsibility of senior leaders to create a culture of care that’s truly felt throughout the organisation.’

Programme details

Ideal participant

The CEDEP L&SC Programme is for managers and senior leaders from all industries who understand and recognise the benefits of setting the right tone to create a culture of care.

It is particularly useful for manufacturing and operations managers, HSE experts, safety and wellness directors, safety engineers and consultants, risk managers, security and environment managers, and executives involved in plant management or distribution.

Please note that we have a specialist programme for the Oil & Gas sector.

Format
In-person and online

Location
CEDEP campus in Fontainebleau, France and internationally upon request

Duration
4 days for the in person programme

2,5 days for the online programme

Language

English or French

Dates

In person programme

5 → 9 June 2023 French session

2 → 6 October 2023 English session

Online programme

29 May → 2 June 2023 English session

In person programme USA

17 → 21 April 2023 English session

Tuition fees 2023 (excl.tax)

€ 4,950 for the in person programme

€ 3,720 for the online programme

Board & Accommodation 2023 (per day excl. tax)

€ TBC

Please find here the L&SC brochure

Please find here the L&SC flyer

Programme participant testimonials

ARNAUD LE GUILLOU

HEAD OF EUROPE AND AFRICA, SANOFI

‘The safety and leadership programme at CEDEP was one of the best leadership trainings I have ever attended.

BERTRAND GIBERT

HEAD OF CORPORATE HSE DEPT, BIOMÉRIEUX

‘When I enrolled in the CEDEP Leadership and Safety Culture programme I was expecting a good overview of the safety leadership concepts but it was much more than Safety.