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Safety Culture Oversight Training

This training developed by ERA was designed to help National Safety Authority (NSA) staff and employees in safety oversight roles actively improve the safety culture of railway stakeholders through their regulatory and supervision activities.

About

National Safety Authorities (NSAs) play a key role in shaping and supporting the development of safety culture across the railway sector. If you’re part of an NSA, this training will provide you with practical strategies and tools to use in your day-to-day regulatory activities to improve safety culture in rail organisations. Among others, you will learn how to use the European Railway Safety Culture Model, how to effectively review documents and conduct interviews, and how to use gathered data to build a clear safety culture picture.

Is this training for you?

This training is accurately tailored for NSA staff, including managers, auditors, inspectors, and analysts. 

If you are a rail professional, safety specialist or accident investigator but you are not part of an NSA, please see the version of this training called Safety Culture Assessment and Monitoring, as it covers the same topics as this course, yet it is designed slightly differently.

Main topics covered

  • Introduction to the European Railway Safety Culture Model and its application
  • Identifying and interpreting safety culture markers
  • Data collection through observation, document review and interviews
  • Drafting and presenting a Safety Culture Assessment Report

Delivery methods

  • Presentations with real-life case examples
  • Interactive group work guided by facilitators
  • Practical role-plays to apply concepts
  • Participant-led discussions shaped by professional experience

Learning outcomes

  • Apply the European Railway Safety Culture Model in your assessments
  • Learn to collect and analyse data to evaluate the maturity of safety management in railway organisations
  • Design strategies meant to improve the safety culture of stakeholders
  • Understand how to collaborate with railway organisations to find methods that enhance safety

Practical information

Capacity: Around 10 participants 

Duration: Approximately 12 hours over 2 days

Meet your trainers

This course is led by our trainers Clarisse Lagaize Davoine and Bart Accou.

When?

To see the next available sessions of the training, please consult our training catalogue. Or request a specific session for your organisation through the Contact Us form.

Testimonials

It’s practical, we can see the finality and the whole picture is built at the end of the training. It’s gradual and it makes sense.

I like most the practical examples related to results of the assessments/peer reviews of the safety culture.

Very well organised, good interaction, good atmosphere with the trainers. What I found particularly useful were the real case studies from actual incidents.