NEW RELEASE: Mindful Leadership With References to BP Texas City THIS DVD PROGRAM FEATURING PROFESSOR ANDREW HOPKINS IDENTIFIES THE KEY ASPECTS OF “MINDFUL LEADERSHIP” AND ILLUSTRATES HOW LAPSES IN LEADERSHIP CONTRIBUTED TO THE BP TEXAS CITY DISASTER. Leadership is important because it is the leaders of an organisation who determine its culture. This is suitable for management at all levels – senior executives, middle-ranking managers and front-line managers that take responsibility for the culture of an organisation. It also illustrates how the participation, competency, training, behaviour and attitudes of individual workers contribute to developing the safety culture of an organisation. Package contents: The package includes a 24-minute DVD featuring Professor Hopkins. Also included is a CD with supporting material.
Key learning outcomes: At the end of the workshop, managers will understand the following key aspects of Mindful Leadership:
Recommended follow-up viewing: “MINDFUL LEADERSHIP Communication Skills” – a DVD program focussing on the essential communication techniques of Mindful Leaders. THIS DVD PROGRAM FEATURES PROFESSOR ANDREW HOPKINS AND FOCUSES SPECIFICALLY ON THE COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF SAFETY LEADERS. Mindful Leaders are acutely aware that the best of systems can fail, even though auditors might be assuring them that all is well. They know that if they want to be sure their systems are working as intended, they need to go and find out for themselves and undertake non-systematic auditing of their own. In order to do so, Mindful Leaders need to be able to communicate effectively with workers.
This program provides guidelines on face-to-face communication with workers on site, not an idea which appeals to many senior managers. This program illustrates in detail, how management at all levels – Senior Executives, Middle-ranking Managers and Front-line Managers need to communicate with their workers. Specifically, it delves into the 5Ws (‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Where’, ‘When’ & ‘Why’) and 1H (‘How’) of effective communication.
As a Safety Culture Consultant, Professor Andrew Hopkins brings a wealth of communication experience to this program - experience built on speaking to people at all levels in companies- from operators all the way to senior management. And in different industries and in different countries around the world. Professor Hopkins’ techniques in undertaking Safety Culture audits results in more detailed information for management than typically made available. This program is a must for all Supervisors, Managers at all levels and Chief Executives.
Package contents: The package includes a 16-minute DVD featuring Professor Hopkins. Also included is a CD with supporting material.
Key learning outcomes: At the end of this workshop, safety leaders will learn communication skills, including:
Recommended prior viewing: “MINDFUL LEADERSHIP With References to BP Texas City” – a DVD
that identifies the key aspects of “Mindful Leadership” and illustrates
how lapses in leadership contributed to the BP Texas City disaster. Click here to preview online.  "Prior to any major accident there are always warning signs which had they been responded to would have averted the accident, but they weren't. They were ignored. Very often there is a whole culture of denial operating to suppress these warning signs." - Professor Andrew Hopkins.
This workshop, which relates to Professor Hopkins' book "Safety, Culture and Risk" has been designed to assist the team address key factors of collective mindfulness, group think and reporting systems, as part of a program to manage warning signs in the workplace. Content and format: This workshop provides for two training options: 1. Interactive version: This includes a video on DVD with pauses for workshop activities. It also includes on CD a PowerPoint presentation with embedded video clips of the program to facilitate interactivity and audience participation at relevant points of the program. This enables the Facilitator to run a complete session. 2. Linear version: This includes a video on DVD with no pauses. It also includes on CD a PowerPoint presentation with the embedded linear program to facilitate a shorter session and the option to conduct activities after the program. This enables the Facilitator to run mini sessions. Each includes on CD a version-specific comprehensive Facilitator’s Guide, Participant Handouts, Reference Material, and links to relevant websites.
Intended audience: Along with front-line management, this program is also suitable for middle to senior management level together with safety, plant and risk managers as an additional process to consider for risk minimisation. Learning outcomes:
Note: This is a revised and shortened version of the full-day workshop 'Creating a Mindful Organisation'. The extensive Gretley Mine case study is not included. Click here to preview online Creating a Mindful Organisation (new version)
 Organisational culture is one of the key reasons why companies fail to recognise the warning signs prior to workplace accidents.
This new, updated version of the ‘Creating a Mindful Organisation’ program provides a self-driven resource that can be used across an organisation, ensuring standardised comprehensive reviews and detailed action plan development and reporting. It can be conducted by in-house facilitators, or by approved facilitators. Content and format: The program is available in two versions:
1.) Interactive version: This includes a video on DVD with pauses for workshop activities. It also includes on CD a PowerPoint presentation with embedded video clips of the program to facilitate interactivity and audience participation at relevant points of the program.
2.) Linear version: This includes a video on DVD with no pauses. With this version, the facilitator can conduct a shorter session with the option to conduct activities after viewing the DVD.
Also included on the CD is the following associated support material: Facilitator’s Guide, Participant’s Handouts, Reference Material and links to relevant websites.
Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of this program attendees will be able to understand the elements of a mindful organisation; identify improvement areas for their own organisation and develop an action plan. Intended Audience: This interactive training workshop has been designed for strategic decision makers, including Safety Managers, management from middle to senior level, Plant Managers and Risk Managers, to give them the tools to significantly improve management of OH&S Risk Systems. Click here to preview online
 This workshop is based on a detailed analysis of the Longford gas explosion that resulted in the death of two workers and crippled Melbourne’s gas supply for two weeks, as outlined in Professor Hopkins’ ground-breaking book ‘Lessons from Longford: the Esso Plant Explosion’.
In this program, the eleven key contributory elements in the safety chain are examined, and flagged in a generic way so that participants can apply the same approach to their own organisations.
This new, updated version of the ‘Preventing Disaster: Learning from Longford’ program forms the basis of an interactive training workshop that can be licenced for your training in-house or can be conducted by approved facilitators.
Content and format: The program is available in two versions: 1.) Interactive version: This includes a video on DVD with pauses for workshop activities. It also includes on CD a PowerPoint presentation with embedded video clips of the program to facilitate interactivity and audience participation at relevant points of the program. 2.) Linear version: This includes a video on DVD with no pauses. With this version, the facilitator can conduct a shorter session with the option to conduct activities after viewing the DVD. Also included on the CD is the following associated support material: Facilitator’s Guide, Participant’s Handouts, Reference Material and links to relevant websites.
Learning outcomes: At the conclusion of the workshop attendees will: understand and be able to apply the lessons; identify improvement areas for their own organisation and develop an action plan. Intended audience: This highly interactive training program is suitable for strategic decision makers, including Safety Managers, management from middle to senior level, Plant Managers and Risk Managers, and will allow participants to develop a detailed action plan of how to apply the “Lessons Learned” to their own organisation. The program is intended to alert and instruct management regarding any weakness in an OH&S System. Click here to preview online  This safety presentation by Professor Andrew Hopkins at a company safety day was recordedﾠin late 2007. References are made to the Gretley mine incident in NSW, dealt with fully in his book "Lessons from Gretley" - published by CCH. The first part of the program - "Aspects of Mindful Leadership" deals with: Why Safety Management Systems may be less than effective; Safety Audits- in incidents at Moura, Longford, Piper Alpha; Communication of leaders- Boots on for Safety model; and Time management in safety- the Ladbroke Rail inquiry. The second part of the program "The Role of the Law in Mindful Leadership" focuses on: the prosecutions in the Gretley incident; Responsibility or liability without fault- the Coca Cola example; Punitive response versus Restorative response; and Community conferencing- ACCC prosecution / Life insurance case. Click here to preview online
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