Ashorne Hill has experience of rolling out our Safety & Health 'Felt Leadership' programme to more than five thousand participants across several organisations. The programme has consistently been associated with the following benefits:

• Greater leadership responsibility and accountability for safety and health practices within each participant's span of influence. The practices, behaviours and mindsets to deliver Felt Leadership are explored to provide a consistent approach and language
• Local safety and health issues make the programme relevant to all participants. Each departmental programme requires department specific imagery and situations
• Tools are applied consistently to situations which participants can relate to individually - leading to reduced risk exposure
• The programme creates a platform to symbolically show, through sponsor contributions, that Health and Safety Leadership is a strategic objective of the organisation
• The programme supports the development of facilitator capability in the health and safety function and the sponsor - through formal development and then experience of facilitating the programme. Ashorne Hill provides guidance and feedback to the Health and Safety professionals and sponsors who co-facilitate the programme
• The programme output, which includes individual and group commitments as well as comprehensive notes of participants' contributions, creates an auditable trail of value adding activities and provides insight into the current cultural challenges, aiding future organisational development

The programme recognises that the participants are experts in their own operational environment. It also recognises that they are best positioned to address the issues and opportunities to improve their Safety and Health performance. The programme creates awareness, and provides relevant tools, to address the strategic or departmental challenges exposed.

Key elements of the programme relate to benefiting from the diversity in the room, whether this is functional diversity on the Strategic Programme or role diversity on the Departmental Programme.

All programmes have benefited from the following sessions:

• As-is - illustrations of the true work environment, shown through images and examples
• Root Cause thinking - a practical activity to develop understanding of immediate, underlying and root causes
• Leadership - to establish personal Safety and Health Leadership strengths and opportunities for improvement - this element would build on the materials developed for the MDP programme
• Behaviour - to develop consistent understanding of personal behavioural requirements and the interpretation of "others" behaviour at the point of failure in incidents and accidents (Human Factors)
• Health and safety planning - to recognise the strengths and weaknesses in the planning activity
• Commitments - to ensure individuals and groups recognise how they would apply their learning and deliver value to the organisation
• Policy to practice - how do we convert our aspiration into reality
• Risk thinking - how do we use consequence and likelihood in our decision making processes
• Managing contractors - where lines of communication are most challenged how do we ensure standards are maintained
• Safety conversations - how to intervene to prevent an incident or accident.

The programme benefits from a collaborative approach to design and delivery.