Safety Academy

Each audience needs to understand the risks it faces and what is expected of it. Learning paths are organized around those responsibilities, so that knowledge builds over time and can be applied in the organization's routines.

When to set up an Academy

• When standalone training sessions do not add up to a coherent development sequence.
• When leaders, technical teams and operations staff need different sets of knowledge and skills.
• When the organization wants to build a common language, with content matched to each audience's responsibilities.
• When important knowledge rests with a few people and needs to circulate better across departments or sites.
• When development needs to be sustained over time and its application tracked.

How the Academy is structured

The design starts with the audiences, the decisions they need to make and the situations they face at work. Based on that reading, the Academy may include:

• Defining the knowledge and skills to be developed;
• Organizing topics and learning sequences for each audience;
• In-person or remote sessions, workshops and hands-on activities;
• Support materials connected to the organization's routines;
• Support for internal facilitators, when that role is part of the scope;
• A calendar, responsibilities and ways to track participation and application.

Format, duration and the mix of resources are defined with the organization, according to the audiences, the objectives and the scope of the work.

Academy and Training

A training course meets a specific knowledge or practice need. The Academy brings different learning initiatives together into an ongoing structure, with connected audiences, topics and responsibilities.

Training courses can be part of the Academy, but they can also be contracted separately when the objective is a one-off.

Related experience

Published projects record training sessions and workshops delivered with General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, EMS, CHS and Minerva Foods. Topics include culture, leadership, risk perception, communication and behavioral observation. Together, they show experience in corporate learning on the topics that underpin the Academy.