Certificate in Safety Leadership
offered by Griffith University

Certificate in Safety Leadership
at
Griffith University
Overview

Learn the skills necessary to enact a new kind of safety leadership that puts a focus on the practical expertise needed to get the job done

Skills you will learn

Who should do this course?

What are the course deliverables?

Specialised knowledge of current ideas, theories, principles and views on safety accountability in complex fields of practice
Have gained deeper insight into sociological and psychological mechanisms behind our reactions to failure
Understand some of the legal constraints on the ability of organizations and countries to protect the free reporting and flow of safety information
Have developed an ability to think critically about how to make progress on the creation of a just culture (that prevents people’s “honest mistakes” from being seen as culpable) in their own operating world and elsewhere
Learned to balance pressures for learning from failure with calls for holding those involved accountable

More about this course

This course will help you advance from the simple, linear cause-effect thinking that has typically characterised safety work in Australia and help you to challenge pre-occupations with process and compliance
In this course students will learn about resilience, complexity science and holism and be taken on an exciting journey into a new era of safety

Foundations of Safety Science

Understanding Human Error and Just Culture

Safety Management Systems

Critical Safety Theory

Eligibility criteria Up Arrow Icon

Education: Bachelor's degree
A minimum overall band score of 6.5 on IELTS (Academic) with no sub-score of less than 6.0
OR a minimum score of 575 on TOEFL
OR an internet-based (iBT) TOEFL score of 79 (no sub-score less than 19)
OR no score less than 3+ in each skill of the ISLPR (conducted by ISLPR Language Services only)
OR a minimum overall score of 176 (no score less than 169) on C1 Advanced (formerly Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English) or C2 Proficiency (formerly Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English)
OR an overall score of 58 in the Pearson Test of English (Academic) with no score less than 50

Conditional Offer Up Arrow Icon