Stop Trying to Fix Your Safety Culture
A 90-minute working masterclass to diagnose what's really shaping safety in your organisation — and decide what to change.
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What if the safety problem you're trying to solve isn't actually a safety problem?
We keep asking "how do we improve our safety culture?" It might be the wrong question.
Organisations don't have a business culture over here and a safety culture over there. How people communicate, make decisions, allocate resources, respond to bad news, challenge leaders, design work and deal with competing priorities — that is culture. Safety is one of the outcomes.
Which means the thing you're calling a safety problem is usually something else wearing a safety label:
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Poor reporting might be a trust problem.
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Safety team dependency might be an accountability problem.
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Low engagement might be a decision-making problem.
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Repeated procedural issues might be a work design problem.
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Poor incident learning might be a learning and communication problem.
This masterclass is where you find out which one you're actually dealing with.
The Framework
Culture
Behaviours
Decisions
Work
Outcomes
What you'll actually do
Everyone works through a live workbook — this isn't a listen-and-nod session.
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Culture Signals Map — name the actual behaviours you're seeing, not vague lines like "our culture isn't mature."
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Follow It Backwards — take a real safety/culture outcome from your organisation and trace it back through work, decisions and behaviours to the cultural condition underneath it.
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Culture Pressure Test — what actually happens when priorities collide: safety vs production, speaking up vs hierarchy, learning vs reputation, wellbeing vs delivery.
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Culture Signals Audit — score your organisation across Trust, Leadership, Communication, Accountability, Collaboration, Speaking Up, Learning, Decision-Making and Work Design.
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Find the Leverage Point — pick the ONE cultural condition that could materially shift the issue you brought.
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30-Day Culture Experiment — leave with something practical you can test immediately, not a report that sits in a drawer.
Who this is for
WHS/HSE leaders and safety professionals, Heads of Safety, People & Culture and HR leaders, operational leaders, senior leaders, and the consultants and advisors who work alongside all of them.
If "culture" is something you're responsible for shaping — through any lever, not just a safety one — this is built for you.
Your host
Alanna Ball is the founder of Women in Safety, a LinkedIn Top Voice in Safety, and has spent 20+ years working across high-risk industries. She's not interested in another culture survey, she's interested in what's actually driving the numbers underneath it.
All the masterclass details
Date: Tuesday 27 October 2026
Time: 10:00am–11:30am AEST (BNE)
11:00am–12:30pm AEDT (SYD/MEL/CBR/HBR)
10:30am ACDT (ADL)
9:30am ACST (DRW)
8:00am AWST (PER)
Duration: 90 minutes, via Zoom (link sent on registration)
You'll leave with a completed workbook, a named leverage point, and a 30-day experiment ready to run
Can't make it live?
The recording goes to every registered ticket holder regardless of attendance
Tickets
Below is an outline of the ticket options available. Click the button below and you will be taken to the event page to secure your seat.
Individual
One seat. You, live, working through the framework on your own organisation's problem.
Team of 5
Bring your safety and culture people into the same room — same diagnosis, same language, same 30-day experiment to run together afterwards.
Team of 10
For larger leadership teams who need to be looking at the same signals at the same time.
Empowered Members get 30% off
Running a bigger team, or want this run privately inside your organisation?
This works as a stand-alone session inside your own leadership team, using your own real culture challenges instead of the group's. Email Alanna at admin@womeninsafety.net to talk about what that looks like.