HSE Leadership Training Service | in Dammam - Riyadh - Jeddah - Makkah

HSE Leadership training per ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and OSHA VPP, focusing on safety culture, risk management, and leadership strategies for HSE excellence.

Course Title

HSE Leadership

Course Duration

1 Day

Competency Assessment Criteria

Practical Assessment and Knowledge Assessment

Training Delivery Method

Classroom (Instructor-Led) or Online (Instructor-Led)

Service Coverage

Saudi Arabia - Bahrain - Kuwait - Philippines

Course Average Passing Rate

96%

Post Training Reporting

Post Training Report(s) + Candidate(s) Training Evaluation Forms

Certificate of Successful Completion

Certification is provided upon successful completion. The certificate can be verified through a QR-Code system.

Certification Provider

Tamkene Saudi Training Center - Approved by TVTC (Technical and Vocational Training Corporation)

Certificate Validity

2 Years (Extendable with additional training hours)

Instructors Languages

English / Arabic / Urdu / Hindi / Pashto

Training Services Design Methodology

ADDIE Training Design Methodology

Course Overview

This intensive HSE Leadership training course provides participants with essential knowledge and practical skills required for developing and sustaining effective health, safety, and environmental management systems through leadership excellence. The course covers fundamental HSE leadership principles along with advanced strategies for building safety culture, engaging workforce, and driving continuous improvement in organizational HSE performance.

Participants will learn to apply industry best practices and international standards including ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety management systems, ISO 14001 for environmental management systems, and OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) for safety and health management. This course combines theoretical concepts with practical applications and real-world case studies to ensure participants gain valuable skills applicable to their professional environment while emphasizing visible leadership commitment, employee engagement, and organizational accountability. The training focuses on developing competent leaders who can inspire safety excellence, influence positive behaviors, and create sustainable HSE cultures within their organizations.

Key Learning Objectives

Understand fundamental HSE leadership principles and responsibilities
Develop effective safety culture and organizational commitment
Implement visible leadership behaviors and engagement strategies
Apply risk-based thinking and decision-making processes
Lead incident investigation and corrective action implementation
Establish performance metrics and continuous improvement systems
Communicate HSE expectations effectively across all organizational levels
Integrate HSE management with business operations and strategic objectives

Group Exercises

Safety culture transformation planning including (assessing current culture maturity, developing leadership action plan for culture improvement, establishing engagement strategies and accountability measures)
Crisis leadership scenario including (managing simulated major incident requiring executive decision-making, stakeholder communication, resource mobilization, and organizational resilience demonstration)

Knowledge Assessment

Leadership principles evaluation including (identifying effective versus ineffective leadership behaviors in safety scenarios, matching leadership actions to culture maturity stages)
Risk-based decision scenarios including (analyzing complex operational decisions requiring safety-production balance, determining appropriate risk acceptance criteria)
Performance metric application including (selecting appropriate leading and lagging indicators for specific organizational contexts, interpreting performance dashboard data)
Standard compliance knowledge including (matching ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 requirements to leadership responsibilities, identifying OSHA VPP criteria applications)

Course Outline

1. Introduction to HSE Leadership

HSE leadership fundamentals including (leadership versus management distinction, moral and business case for safety, legal obligations, organizational accountability, leadership impact on performance)
International standards framework including (ISO 45001 management system requirements, ISO 14001 environmental principles, OSHA VPP criteria, integration opportunities)
Leadership roles and responsibilities including (executive commitment, management accountability, supervisor duties, worker participation, contractor oversight)
HSE business integration including (strategic alignment, operational excellence, competitive advantage, stakeholder expectations, sustainability objectives)

2. Building Safety Culture

Safety culture components including (shared values and beliefs, behavioral norms, leadership commitment, employee engagement, continuous learning)
Culture maturity assessment including (reactive stage, dependent stage, independent stage, interdependent stage, cultural indicators)
Transformational leadership approaches including (vision setting, inspiration and motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, change management)
Employee engagement strategies including (safety committees, suggestion systems, recognition programs, empowerment initiatives, two-way communication)

3. Visible Leadership and Engagement

Visible felt leadership behaviors including (workplace presence, safety conversations, observation participation, barrier removal, recognition delivery)
Leadership walkarounds and inspections including (planning effective tours, asking powerful questions, active listening techniques, immediate corrective actions, follow-up commitments)
Safety dialogue techniques including (open-ended questioning, non-punitive approach, behavioral observation feedback, coaching conversations, peer-to-peer influence)
Leading by example including (personal PPE compliance, procedure adherence, stop work authority demonstration, near-miss reporting, continuous improvement participation)

4. Risk-Based Leadership and Decision Making

Risk assessment integration per ISO 45001 including (hazard identification processes, risk evaluation methods, control hierarchy application, residual risk acceptance, change management)
Risk-based decision making including (balancing safety and production, resource allocation priorities, precautionary principle application, uncertainty management, stakeholder consideration)
Critical risk management including (fatality prevention programs, critical control identification, barrier management, major accident hazards, bow-tie analysis)
Operational discipline including (procedure compliance expectations, deviation management, permit-to-work oversight, quality control, verification systems)

5. Incident Leadership and Learning

Incident investigation leadership per OSHA 1904 including (investigation team formation, resource allocation, external expertise engagement, corrective action approval, accountability enforcement)
Root cause analysis oversight including (methodology selection, investigation quality assurance, systemic issue identification, human factors consideration, organizational learning)
Corrective action implementation including (action plan development, responsibility assignment, timeline establishment, effectiveness verification, closure confirmation)
Learning organization development including (lessons learned dissemination, knowledge management, best practice sharing, cross-functional collaboration, continuous improvement culture)

6. Performance Measurement and Continuous Improvement

Leading and lagging indicators per ANSI Z10 including (proactive metrics selection, behavioral observations, safety training hours, near-miss reporting rates, audit completion)
Performance monitoring systems including (dashboard development, trend analysis, benchmarking practices, target setting, progress tracking)
Management review processes per ISO 45001 including (performance evaluation frequency, data analysis, improvement opportunities, resource needs, strategic alignment)
Continuous improvement methodologies including (Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, gap analysis, corrective and preventive actions, management of change, innovation encouragement)

7. HSE Communication and Influence

Communication strategy development including (message clarity, audience segmentation, channel selection, frequency determination, feedback mechanisms)
Influencing safety behaviors including (positive reinforcement, consequence management, peer influence, social norms, behavioral economics principles)
Conflict resolution and difficult conversations including (addressing non-compliance, performance management, competing priorities, resource constraints, organizational resistance)
Crisis communication leadership including (emergency response coordination, stakeholder notification, media relations, transparency principles, post-crisis recovery)

Practical Assessment

Leadership walkabout simulation including (conducting mock workplace inspection, engaging employees in safety conversations, identifying improvement opportunities)
Safety meeting facilitation including (leading effective toolbox talk, addressing employee concerns, communicating HSE expectations clearly)
Incident response exercise including (demonstrating leadership actions during simulated workplace incident, coordinating investigation resources, communicating with stakeholders)

Gained Core Technical Skills

HSE leadership fundamentals per ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 including (management system requirements, leadership and commitment obligations, policy establishment, organizational role assignment, resource allocation, performance evaluation)
Safety culture development including (culture maturity assessment, transformational leadership application, employee engagement strategy implementation, behavioral influence techniques, recognition program design)
Visible leadership practices including (effective workplace presence, safety dialogue facilitation, observation and feedback delivery, barrier removal processes, leading by example behaviors)
Risk-based decision making per ISO 45001 including (risk assessment integration, control hierarchy application, critical risk management, operational discipline enforcement, change management oversight)
Incident investigation leadership per OSHA 1904 including (investigation resource allocation, root cause analysis quality assurance, corrective action approval and tracking, organizational learning promotion, accountability enforcement)
Performance management per ANSI Z10 including (leading and lagging indicator selection, performance monitoring system establishment, trend analysis interpretation, management review facilitation, continuous improvement methodology application)
HSE communication and influence including (strategic communication planning, behavioral influence techniques, conflict resolution approaches, crisis communication leadership, stakeholder engagement methods)

Training Design Methodology