ELSE MOOC

Leadership for safety capability is coming up as a key professional requirement for managers with responsibilities for safety in industry sectors characterized by inherent organisational complexity and high levels of regulation, such as the nuclear sector.

This ELSE MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was developed in the frame of the EU funded ELSE Project, to offer you an insight, informed by the most recent findings of social and management sciences, into the key concepts and main challenges of leadership for safety.  The ELSE MOOC is elaborated by an international team of professors and experts, world class specialists in their field and addresses a significant part of the theoretical knowledge of the ELSE curriculum. 
      
Leadership for safety is defined as a process of influencing behavior so it meets the expectations of safety management. As the process of influence is embedded in an organizational context, the ability to exercise this process of leadership depends on the understanding of: the expectations of safety management, the organizational dynamics, and the process of influence itself (e.g., the leadership process). This MOOC will help you to better understand these three themes, that contribute to the development and implementation of effective leadership for safety. This MOOC consists of four complementary e-learning units, Units 1 & 2 introduce the key concepts; Units 6 & 7 the key challenges. Each unit requires approximately 2,5 screen-days of attendance.  

The ELSE MOOC is available free of charge.

This MOOC is implemented in partnership with INSA (Institut National des sciences appliquées, University of Toulouse, France) using innovative pedagogical and multimedia tools. 

                                                                             
 The ELSE  MOOC is now available by following this link (https://seamonline.insa-toulouse.fr/mod/page/view.php?id=5965) or by scanning QR code:

MOOC Content

This state-of-the-art MOOC introduces key concepts of the ELSE training.
The following table details the key concepts studied in Units 1 and 2:

Unit 1: Safety Management: Key Concepts 

1. Ensuring Safety: a Historical Approach
2. Risks and Safety: a Technical Approach
3. Risks and Safety: a Systemic Approach
4. Standards
5. Managing Safety: an Evolving Problematic

Unit 2: Organisation and Leadership: Key Concepts 

1. Organisational Structure & Design
2. Safety Culture
3. Knowledge Management
4. Leadership
5. Leadership for Safety

The following table details the key challenges studied in the following units: 
 

Unit 6: Safety Management: Key Challenges

1. Understading Complexity
2. Building High Reliability Organisations: from Anticipation to Resilience
3. Dealing with Uncertainty in a Collective Manner: Collective Cognition 
4. Dealing with Uncertainty Individually: Cognitive Factors
5. Dealing with Uncertainty Individually: Personal Factors

 

Unit 7: Organisation & Leadership: Key Challenges

1. Paradox Management
2. Uncertainty, Complexity, and Organisational Limits – Implications for Safety 
3. Knowledge and Learning 
4. Leadership as Process for Safety 
5. Complexity and Ethical Leadership