The Advanced Safety Professional Practice Program (ASPP) equips experienced safety professionals to contribute confidently at the senior leadership table. It builds strategic capability, professional judgement and influence, so participants can shape decisions, challenge systems and embed the safety of work into organisational performance.
For safety professionals shaping strategy, decisions, and outcomes.
Designed to have impact. Built for real world operations.
ASPP develops advanced professional capability for safety professionals engaged in strategic safety work, supporting better decisions, stronger strategy, and meaningful outcomes.
Strategy, Not Activity
ASPP develops the capability to shape safety strategy and influence organisational priorities. Participants strengthen how they frame issues, navigate trade-offs, and focus attention on outcomes that improve the safety of work.
Executive-Level Influence
The program develops the confidence and judgement required to influence senior leaders in complex organisational decisions. ASPP strengthens how safety professionals frame issues, navigate tension, and earn credibility where organisational direction is set.
Making Sense of Complexity
ASPP builds the capability to navigate complex systems, competing priorities, and uncertainty without defaulting to oversimplification. Participants learn how to exercise sound judgement and guide decisions where risk, work, and organisational pressures intersect.
Measuring What Actually Matters
The program shifts focus from lag indicators and assurance activity to insight and learning. Participants build the capability to assess whether strategies and controls are genuinely improving the safety of work.
Leading Safety at Scale
Participants develop the capability to lead safety across multiple sites, risks, and operating contexts. The program strengthens consistent judgement and decision-making while remaining responsive to local conditions and realities.
Deep Learning, Global Perspective, Real Impact
- Expertly Facilitated
- Bootcamp Format
- Multi-Modal Content Delivery
- Interactive Live Webinars
- Global Cohort Experience
Facilitated by Dr David Provan, former Safety General Manager and PhD researcher on the role of the safety professional, combining operational leadership experience with contemporary safety science.
A structured, immersive learning journey that builds momentum, depth of thinking, and sustained capability over time.
Online modules, readings, videos, practical activities and reflection tasks to support different learning styles.
Weekly global sessions focused on discussion, application, and executive-level judgement rather than passive content delivery.
Diverse professionals from multiple industries and countries, strengthening perspective, challenge, and shared learning.
Proven impact. Measurable results. Stronger safety capability.
ASPP has enabled experienced safety professionals worldwide to strengthen influence, deepen professional judgement, and shape organisational safety performance.
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Applied their learning directly in practice.
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Reported increased confidence and effectiveness.
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Would recommend ASPP to a colleague.
Program Content
Six levels. Twelve modules. Building strategic capability to improve the safety of work.
Level 1: Establishing context
ASPP develops the capability to understand the broader system in which safety operates. Participants strengthen how they interpret safety science, question organisational assumptions, and critically examine how strategy, structure and management systems shape the safety of work.
Level 2: Creating Influence
ASPP develops the capability to build influence where decisions that shape the safety of work are made. Participants strengthen how they build relationships, use inquiry, navigate tension, and have constructive conversations that earn credibility across the organisation.
Level 3: Managing Risk
The program builds advanced capability in understanding, anticipating and shaping risk. Participants develop deeper insight into risk psychology, control effectiveness and proactive risk management, focusing on outcomes that improve the safety of work rather than activity alone.
Level 4: Managing Work
ASPP strengthens the capability to embed safety within the way work is designed and governed. Participants learn how to shape management systems, reduce safety clutter, evaluate assurance, and ensure that processes genuinely support safer operational performance.
Level 5: Leading Change
The program builds the capability to lead and sustain organisational improvement. Participants develop the judgement required to diagnose opportunities, shape strategy, and guide change in complex environments where competing priorities and constraints are the norm.
Level 6: Facilitating Learning
ASPP strengthens the capability to turn events and operational experience into organisational learning. Participants build skill in understanding work, conducting meaningful investigations, facilitating learning teams, and monitoring whether improvement efforts are delivering safer outcomes.
Delivery Timeframe
ASPP is delivered over 12 weeks in a structured, cohort-based format that builds depth, momentum and sustained capability.
Get in contact to learn more about the program structure, upcoming intakes and how ASPP can strengthen safety capability within your organisation.
