Safety Leadership Program

Building a culture of learning, ownership and accountability

Leading safety to create meaningful change

Safety is a shared, complex challenge. Yet many safety leadership roles are heavily focused on compliance and control – ensuring workers follow the rules instead of engaging in the process and contributing positively to safety performance.

Southpac's Safety Leadership Program is a customised 6-12 month program designed to deliver sustainable, long-term results, and create a measurable shift in an organisation's approach to safety.

Each program is uniquely designed following a Discovery phase to understand the current challenges or obstacles within the organisation, and any emerging solutions that can be amplified throughout the training program.

Commencing with intensive 2-day workshops, each cohort of leaders continues through a monthly coaching program – allowing for the concepts and skills to be practiced and sustainably embedded into work.

Discovery & Planning

The Discovery and Planning phase is designed to understand current safety challenges, assumptions about safety leadership, and emerging solutions which can help shape the program objectives and contextualise the training modules.

Training Delivery

Commencing with initial 2-Day workshops, the module content can be delivered over two consecutive days or split over a short period of time. Each cohort will continue the work and check in with monthly group coaching sessions.

Measuring Impact

To ensure the learning objectives are sustainably achieved, there are several methods for measuring the impact and value of the program, including 360 feedback surveys, recording safety interactions and Safety Leadership Index tracking.

Less theory, more application

Leaders work on real safety challenges instead of just listening to concepts.

Practical tools and action plans

Leaders leave with clear strategies to apply immediately in their roles.

High-engagement learning

Leaders make decisions, reflect, and adjust in real-time through scenario-based training.

Focused on leadership, not compliance

This isn’t compliance training—it’s about building adaptive leadership skills to improve safety culture and outcomes.

Case Study

See how Squadron Energy are prioritising safety leadership as a core pillar of operational excellence.

Understanding system complexity
Understanding leadership
What kind of safety leaders are needed?

Understanding Safety

Introducing Human & Organisational Performance
Presence vs absense
Compliance vs capacity

Leading Safety

Balancing control and care
Accountability behaviours
Doing safety with people

The Role of Leaders

Hero leadership
Servant leadership
Host leadership

Safety Conversations #1

The Safety Conversation process
Creating meaningful, insightful and impactful conversations

Safety Conversations #2

Safety Conversation skills
Asking better questions

Engaging presenter who offered very practical advice on how to go about championing safety in our organisation. I really liked the psychological theory on leadership and effective communication.

Industry relevant content that can be universally applied to most situations. Presentation methods and delivery were simple and effective and, paired with more peer group activities, made the content so much richer.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course in a way I never expected. This was a breath of fresh air and a far cry from the dogmatic approach so many organisations take to safety. I think it is a much more effective way to win over the workforce and put us on a better trajectory.

I will endeavour to ensure that health and safety actions and processes are as 'frictionless' as possible for my staff so that the work practices continue to be safe without unnecessary bureaucracy and administration that does not add to safer outcomes.