Forum Interactive - Leadership and Behavioural Health and Safety Training for the Offshore Industry

Forum Interactive is a learning and development consultancy specialising in behavioural safety and safety leadership. We design and deliver tailor-made events of any size as well as learning resources (e.g. interactive training films) - all of which can be incorporated into your training programme.

Leading companies within the oil and gas sector are looking to Forum Interactive to meet health and safety needs - e.g. Maersk Oil, Shell, CGG Veritas, BG Group and Petroleum Geo-Services.

Offshore behavioural safety and leadership training

We create stories about how human behaviour affects the implementation of safety management systems. The stories are based on evidence from industry research, incident reports and experiences from inside your own organisation.

Told through plays, interactive drama or film, these stories are used as the basis for refreshing, challenging learning events that support your people to learn, develop skills and improve performance. These events will:

• Explore values, attitudes and behaviours that underpin an effective safety culture
• Raise awareness, develop motivation and commitment to action at all levels of your organisation
• Develop the management and leadership skills needed to sustain an effective safety culture

Drama-based offshore health and safety training

Our approach makes health and safety meaningful and relevant to people. They identify personal connections with the value and purpose of an effective safety culture. They understand what and why behavioural change is needed.

"Past mobilisation workshops involved endless powerpoint slides and blank faces. These sessions were designed around our needs and the type of operations we do. Our crew at all levels were able to make clear connections and, as a result, people were engaged and discussions were lively," Russell Endersby, HSE manager, EAME Marine Acquisition, CGG Veritas.

Offshore safety culture training

Dramatising high-potential incidents enables you to understand, communicate and implement necessary changes.

Our approach lifts an incident from the flat pages of a report, bringing it to life in front of those very people who have the power to make a difference. It motivates them to be proactive and helps them identify opportunities for intervention.

Safety leadership training

Showing your leaders how their style affects workforce behaviour and morale reinforces their key role in creating an effective safety culture.

Stories that are used interactively show people what leadership looks and feels like, while allowing them to practise and develop their own skills.

Team-working training exercises

Bringing different groups of people together (e.g. teams, stakeholders, contractors) to find solutions to the challenges they face helps you to improve team work and communication. A story allows different perspectives to be explored equally so provides an excellent way of presenting the challenge and stimulating discussion.

Behavioural safety training for the offshore industry

Telling a story that gets people thinking, feeling and talking about their own experience helps them to make a personal connection with health and safety. It also helps you to understand and respond to their views and to influence their behaviour. This approach is proven to increase levels of compliance.

Drama-based health and safety learning: an evaluation

Since 2006 we have been working with First Group UK and First Group North America to support them to bring HSE into the heart of leadership practice and operations.

"Drama-based learning has had a significant effect on First Group's safety record. Since January 2007 we've had a 47% reduction in time lost through injury and a 30% drop in collision and red signal mistakes. Further, our database shows over 500k injury prevention contacts have been made between employees and managers," Naveed Qamar, group safety director, First Group.

In our first event for bus drivers, 'Jim's Story' was used to show the aftermath of a fatal accident involving a child. Delegates were each given a child's hair bobble to remind them of the experience and what they had learnt.

Tony McNiff (managing director, First Cymru Buses, Wales, UK) attended this event. These comments were made at a conference four years later: "The event was the first of its kind that I'd been to and I found it extremely moving. I carry the child's hair bobble in my injury prevention book. People often ask me why it's there. I tell them that every time I open the book I see the hair bobble and it reminds me of my daughter and that makes health and safety personal for me - the hair bobble acts as a trigger for further safety conversations."