Aggreko: Leading Safety Program

Aggreko wanted to roll out the learning program to all 600+ front line managers and supervisors across the company.

Due to their global presence, it needed to be translated into 7 languages. It also needed to be flexible, accessible, easily understood and of high quality.

Some of the managers and supervisors were located in place with no internet access, so any online learning materials had to be available offline, too.

"Partnering with Astutis was easy. They listened and understood our objectives and were open and flexible to change” - Sam Baxter, Global Safety Learning Manager at Aggreko PLC.

Based on the scope and objectives provided by Aggreko, we designed a structured ‘Leading Safety’ program aimed at managers and supervisors.

The aims and objectives of the popular IOSH Managing Safely course was chosen as the basis for the program as it aligned with Aggreko’s audience and aims. But, to make the course specific to Aggreko, it had to be condensed to focus on the areas most relevant to front line staff, and tailored to reflect Aggreko’s own policies, procedures and values.

We took the general concepts from IOSH Managing Safely and looked at them from a manager or supervisors point of view, asking the question

"What do I need to know to ensure my team and I get home safely, and how do I do this at Aggreko?”

Aggreko’s managers and supervisors already had a basic understanding of health and safety. Aggreko wanted to make sure that they also had the leadership skills to influence behaviour and improve safety culture. As such, it was important that the learning program had a 360o approach to employee development.

To achieve this, we designed the learning experience based around the 70/20/10 methodology, which breaks down in proportion how people learn effectively. This combined a structured core learning (10%), relationship and interaction based learning (20%), and on the job learning (70%).

The learning program included elements of online, face-to-face sessions and practical, hands-on activities.

Face-to face sessions were to be led by Aggreko HSE managers to create a complete business-wide approach to the learning program. This required extra coaching to these individuals to help them confidently deliver the sessions and coach their own staff.

"Together, Aggreko and Astutis created an innovative and engaging learning intervention combining dynamic online learning and coaching to maximise both effectiveness and efficiency." - Sam Baxter, Aggreko PLC

'Creation and delivery of ‘Leading Safety

The aim of the introduction was to motivate managers and supervisors to commit to the learning experience. It covered two themes:

The strategic importance of the ‘Leading Safety’ program and the expectation of managers and supervisors with a reminder of Aggreko values and safety concepts and an outline of what the learning experience involves – structure, content, points of contact. We worked with Aggreko's internal communication team to script the video, making sure the corporate values were properly communicated. Our multimedia team filmed the video at Aggreko's UK offices using high-quality green screen equipment. The video featured the CEO of Aggreko to show the importance of the learning program as well as relevant imagery, such as Aggreko's Orange Rules icons and extracts from the course.

Online bite-size modules