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Safety Culture Transformation Program

Putting a plan into daily work requires leaders and teams to participate. The program provides mentoring, design, and strategic, technical, and operational support for cultural transformation, with direction shared with the organization.

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The direction set by senior leadership needs to make sense to those who put it into practice. Managers, technical functions, and teams participate in implementation, so responsibilities and monitoring arrangements must be clear to them.

When the program is appropriate

  • When the organization has defined priorities and needs to put them into practice in operations.
  • When initiatives exist but reach daily work in a fragmented or inconsistent way.
  • When the safety strategy needs to be more closely connected to operations and the leadership agenda.
  • When different sites need to share principles while taking local contexts into account.
  • When an existing program has lost momentum or depends too heavily on specific people.

Mentoring, design, and implementation support

Mentoring

The work involves the leaders and professionals responsible for sustaining the program. Mentoring provides a space to analyze decisions, implementation difficulties, and situations encountered in work as actually performed.

Design

Strategic planning is translated into practices, responsibilities, rituals, and monitoring arrangements suited to the organization’s context.

Strategic, technical, and operational support

The support connects the direction set by the organization with leadership decisions and operating conditions. The work may involve facilitation, tool development, leadership training, and monitoring implementation.

Practices and responsibilities during implementation

Governance and responsibilities

Clarity about the roles of senior leadership, technical functions, operational managers, and teams. Culture grows stronger when responsibility, decision-making authority, and monitoring are no longer implicit.

Practices and rituals

Review or development of routines that put the strategy into practice: leadership conversations, presence in the field, responses to risk signals, recognition, communication, and learning.

Indicators and monitoring

Organization of evidence that makes it possible to monitor implementation and learn from operations. The aim is to support decisions, not to create an additional layer of control with no practical use.

Leadership development

Preparing leaders to guide change consistently, handle tensions, and uphold the agreed principles even under operational pressure.

In this area of work, leadership development is connected to the transformation the organization needs to carry out. In the Liderança Antifrágil program and Mentoring for Leaders, the leader’s practice is the primary focus.

Scope defined with the organization

Duration, deliverables, responsibilities, and frequency are defined in the proposal according to maturity, scope, and existing planning.

Connections with other areas of work and projects

Strategic Safety Planning defines direction, priorities, responsibilities, and monitoring arrangements. The Safety Culture Transformation Program brings together mentoring, design, and strategic, technical, and operational support to implement that direction within the organization.

When the organization also needs members of the team to participate in implementation within operations, EHS Outsourcing can contribute to implementation under a separate scope of work.

The Projects page documents strategy and cultural transformation work carried out with organizations such as Raízen, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Citrosuco, InterCement, CESP, and BrasilAgro.

Strategic Safety Planning · EHS Outsourcing · Published projects

Supporting cultural transformation in organizations

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2023–2026 · Highway concessions

EcoRodovias

Implementation of the plan, tools developed with leaders, and development of contractor companies.

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2023–2026 · Power transmission

ISA Energia Brasil

Two cycles with assessments, leadership training, proactive tools, and contractor development.

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2023–2026 · Sugar and bioenergy

Clealco

Transformation program with leadership strengthening, tool design and piloting, and operational dialogues.

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Further reading

In this article, I reflect on how a leader’s voice contributes to safety culture.

What needs to change in practice?

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