A Mini MBA Series
Mini MBA for HSE Professionals
Previously advertised as 'The 10-Day Advanced Health & Safety Leadership
Scheduled Dates
Classroom
| 22 Dec 2025 - 02 Jan 2026 | London - UK | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 06 - 17 Jul 2026 | London - UK | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 21 Sep - 02 Oct 2026 | Amsterdam - The Netherlands | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 19 - 30 Oct 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 21 Dec 2026 - 01 Jan 2027 | London - UK | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Would an alternative date be more suitable?
We offer a variety of tailored training options, customized to meet your organisation's needs. Delivered anytime, anywhere, we make it easy to bring expert training directly to your team.
Why Choose this Training Course?
Become a master of health and safety leadership. This Mini MBA for HSE Professionals will provide you with everything you need to reap the benefits of a great safety culture. Successful leaders have a passion for improvement and are able to empower others throughout the organization to win with their safety initiatives.
Leadership is critical for excellent health and safety performance. We all know that leader’s actions and attitudes shape safety culture and a successful culture makes the safety management system work. This PetroKnowledge training course will provide you with powerful tools to enable you to define the culture you wish to create, identify what behaviours and attitudes you, as a leader, need to role model and the actions that can be taken to make a real difference.
This training course will highlight:
- Mastering the Art of Leadership
- Visible felt leadership and beyond
- Advanced risks, threats and impacts
- Reasons for Safety Management failures
- Successful Health and Safety Management
- Human factors and their effect on safety culture
- Influencing others and driving improvement
- Safety excellence, the ultimate objective to zero
MODULES
This PetroKnowledge training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Advanced Safety Leadership
MODULE II - Advanced Health & Safety Management
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-week training course.
What are the Goals?
At the end of this training course, you will learn to:
- Apply new leadership skills to make a real difference
- Develop new and effective motivational and engagement techniques
- Apply your safety and risk management leadership skills
- Understand the importance of safety culture and human factors in sustaining a successful safety management system
- Empower others to continuous improvement
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course is ideal to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those persons responsible for leading safety within an organisation at a global, regional or local level. In particular, this Mini MBA for HSE Professionals is aimed at those seeking new concepts in the role of leaders in shaping the culture and ultimate success of their organization.
This includes:
- All Line Managers
- Supervisors and Team Leaders
- HSE Managers and Advisors
- Human Resources Professionals
- Any other personnel who are involved in leading and promoting the safety message
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This Mini MBA for HSE Professionals uses a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes thought provoking syndicate and individual exercises, DVD and case studies.
Organisational Impact
This PetroKnowledge training course will provide an organization with leaders who can identify and implement the actions necessary to make a real difference. These leaders will be able to motivate others to improve both organizational and customer needs.
The organisational impact will be:
- Providing a clearer understanding of how, why and what goes wrong
- Improving safety systems, control and behavior
- Implementing pragmatic solutions to improve your SMS
- Achieving the professional development of staff
- Reducing accidents and business losses in the workplace
- Developing leaders better equipped to prevent or manage adverse events
- The capacity to increase profitability
Personal Impact
Those attending this training course will return to their organisation equipped with powerful tools and a renewed confidence to engage their colleagues and communicate the safety message.
The personal impact will be:
- Learning how to be a great leader
- Understanding how to better align safety with the business agenda
- Learning how to motivate your workforce to join you on a journey to Zero
- Ensuring your colleagues go from “have to” to “want to”
- Appreciating the importance of human factors
- Understanding the benefits of a successful health and safety management system
Daily Agenda
Module 1: Advanced Safety Leadership
Day One: Accident & Incident Causation Factors
- The analysis of accidents – Looking at the facts, figures & costs
- Why do accidents still occur? Human factors, triggers, and consequences
- Conscious and unconscious influences within a safety culture
- The Bradley Curve and four stages of mind-sets
- The ‘new ABC model’: Effective, behavioural, and cognitive psychology
- Understand the psychology behind human behaviour and learn how to apply pragmatic solutions to improve your SMS
Day Two: Safety Management in Major Hazard Industries
- Major Hazards and Prevention
- ISO 31000 and Safety Excellence
- Occupational Safety, Process Safety and Asset Risk Management
- FTA and ETA
- Bow Ties
- Emergency Response Plans, Mutual Aid, On and Off-Site Consequences
- Inspection and Auditing
Day Three: Improve Leadership and Communication skills
- Enhancing your Leadership Capabilities through Increased Self-awareness
- Analyse Your Communication Strategies and Social Performance
- Communication Campaigns and Stakeholder Engagement
- ‘Have to’ or ‘Want to’: Generating Real Desire for Safety
- Varying Leadership Skills for Varying Scenarios
Day Four: Advanced Accident Investigation and Reporting
- All Incidents (including near misses) are thoroughly and professionally investigated by a trained and confident team
- Role of HSE Team Leader and Management during an Investigation
- Investigation Methodology - the Essential Checklist & Process
- Listen and Learn, and Learn to Look and Listen More!
- Report Writing Techniques which will ‘persuade’ and ‘empower’ Actions
Day Five: Organisational & Environmental Risk, Threat & Impact
- Latest International Standards: BSI65000, BS11200, ISO31000 / 22301 / 24762
- Understanding the Impact of Change or Major Incidents on the Organisation
- Strategic Crisis and Emergency Management in a Resilience framework
- Strategic Risk and Risk Behaviour
- Identify and Manage Current and Future Threats to Your Business
- Take a Proactive Approach to Minimizing the Impact of Incidents
- Keep Critical Functions Up and Running During Times of Change and Crises
Module 2: Advanced Health & Safety Management
Day Six: Legislation for Health and Safety
- Introduction
- Legislation for Health and Safety
- Legislation for High Hazard Industries
- Process safety management (OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119)
- The Seveso Directive (EU Directive)
- Introduction to Safety Management Systems
Day Seven: Policy and Safety Culture
- Setting policy and organizing for health and safety
- Control, co-operation, communication and competence
- Safety culture and human factors
- Safety management systems and safety culture factors
- Essential safety management system components
- Developing and sustaining an effective safety management system
- The benefits of an effective safety management system
Day Eight: Planning and Implementing
- Planning and Implementation
- Management Arrangements
- Risk Control Systems – Inputs, Processes and Outputs
- Risk Assessments
- Work permit systems and isolation
- Hazard Communication
Day Nine: Measuring Performance
- Measuring the performance of stated intentions against actual delivery
- Active Monitoring Systems
- Reactive Monitoring Systems
- Audits and Reviews
- Risk Management
Day Ten: Behavioral Safety
- Taylor, Herzberg, McGregor, and Maslow
- ABC Analysis – Antecedents, Behavior and Consequences
- Natural Penalties and Consequences
- Identifying Critical Behaviors
- Feedback on Observations
Certificate
- On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
