Just Culture Essentials for Leaders & Managers

How will this course benefit me?This one-day workshop is designed as an introduction to Just Culture, giving participants an understanding of why a Just Culture is important and what benefits it can bring to their business.Participants will learn how to build and maintain a Just Culture within their organisation, with the support of processes and tools such as the FAiR® System. This will enable delegates to unlock critical safety information and assess behaviours in a fair and consistent manner. This participative workshop also creates opportunities to share best practice and network with like-minded individuals.

This course will give you:

• Ability and confidence to practically implement a Just Culture
• Greater effectiveness in influencing positive organisational culture change
• Increased organisational learning by identification of reporting barriers
• Understanding on how to more effectively target interventions to decrease recurrent events

Key areas of focus

• The concept of culture and its impact on the safety and performance of an organisation.
• Introducing Just Culture principles
• Building a Just Culture and sustaining behaviours that underpin Just Culture
• Supporting processes and tools, including applying the FAiR® System
• Intervening effectively to ensure decreased recurrent events
• Unlocking information to maximise safety improvement

Is this course right for me?This course is applicable to all aviation functions and departments, and is designed to help anyone who is either interested or tasked with implementing a Just Culture within their organisation, including:

• Accountable Managers
• Nominated Persons

This course would also benefit:
Anyone responsible for creating and sustaining an Error Management system, including:

• Quality Managers
• Human Resources Staff
• Human Factors Specialists
• Error Management Specialists
• Health and Safety Specialists

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with Human Factors and Error Management concepts is desirable but not essential.
• Attendance on a Safety Management course or equivalent working knowledge of safety is desirable but not essential

Course detailsCourse format: This course is a balanced mix of group discussions, flipchart work and PowerPoint presentations. Managed syndicate exercises give you the opportunity to practise the application and evaluation of new processes and techniques.
Course level: Foundation Level Training (F) is suitable for those with little or no prior knowledge of the subject who are looking to develop a fundamental level of understanding, competency and knowledge.
Assessment process: No formal assessment. Formative feedback is provided by the facilitator.
Course size: 16 persons maximum at our Aviation Safety Academy or on-site at your facility. This small class size enables full delegate participation in the scenario based practical exercises.