Empowering Supervisors to Lead and Create Impact
3 Phase
The Supervisor Safety Accelerator (SSA) is a is a skills-based Supervisor Leadership Skills certification process that focuses on creating work teams that are engaged in achieving record breaking safety performance, driven by the Supervisor as the catalyst.
With three key phases, the Supervisor Safety Accelerator helps organizations achieve real, lasting improvements in safety and productivity—making supervisors not just better leaders, but true champions of safety and operational success.
Phase 1
Foundation for Success:
Setting the Stage for Long-Term Safety Leadership
This is where it all begins. In Phase 1, we partner with your administrative and leadership teams to set up the systems, tools, and resources supervisors need to thrive. With the Safeworx Leadership System Toolset, we make sure the improvements made through better leadership skills are built to last and easy to measure.
Here’s what we’ll work on together:
- Performance management frameworks
- Recognition systems and scorecards
- Data collection processes to track progress
- Cultural performance benchmarks to understand where you stand
- Communication planning strategies to keep everyone on the same page
- Stakeholder alignment protocols to ensure smooth adoption
Phase 1
By the end of this phase, your team will have a solid foundation for long-term safety and leadership success.
Mandatory
Phase 2
Supervisor Development:
Transforming Supervisors into Safety Champions
Phase 2 is all about hands-on growth and skill-building. Supervisors progress through four structured levels of training – Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Master – each spaced three months apart. At every level, they focus on specific skills from the Safeworx Core 7 Leadership Skills and integrate a new safety engagement activity to reinforce these skills in their daily roles.
Here’s what each level includes:
Bronze
Mandatory
- Core Leadership Skills: Giving Recognition, Leader as Trainer, Scorekeeping.
- Safety Engagement: Soliciting Unsafe Conditions – encouraging employees to proactively identify and address hazards.
Silver
Optional
- Core Leadership Skills: Team Building—helping supervisors foster stronger, more collaborative teams.
- Safety Engagement: Soliciting Unsafe Acts – encouraging team members to report activity that could lead to incidents.
Gold
Optional - Dependency: Silver
- Core Leadership Skills: Lowering Tolerance Levels—guiding supervisors to raise safety standards and hold themselves and their teams accountable.
- Safety Engagement: Soliciting Near Hits – gathering insights on near-hits incidents to prevent future human or operational impact.
Master
Optional - Dependency: Gold
- Core Leadership Skills: Providing Feedback, Goal Setting—enabling supervisors to drive performance improvements and set clear, achievable targets.
- Safety Engagement: Soliciting Suggestions for Improvement – creating an environment where employees actively contribute ideas to enhance safety and operations.
Phase 2
Advancing to the next level requires supervisors to demonstrate competency in the assigned skills through the Safeworx Leadership Audit Tool. Each level builds on the previous one, ensuring steady progression and mastery of the Core 7 Leadership Skills. By the time they reach the final Master level, supervisors will be proficient in all seven skills and capable of leading with confidence and consistency.
This phased approach ensures that supervisors not only develop new leadership skills but also actively apply them, reinforced by safety engagements, to create a safer, more effective work environment.
Mixed Requirements
Phase 3
Sustainability and Growth:
Embedding a Self-Sustaining Safety Culture
The final phase is all about keeping the momentum going. Supervisors are assessed by a Safeworx Master Leader to ensure they’re meeting our Safeworx Leadership Certification Criteria, which includes both qualitative and quantitative evaluation.
Why does this matter? Because having an outside, expert evaluation builds trust, ensures fairness, and gives supervisors confidence in their progress.: Embedding a Self-Sustaining Safety Culture.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- How well supervisors are applying the Safeworx Core 7 Leadership Skills with their teams
- The measurable impacts of improved safety performance
- Their ability to foster strong, engaged teams
- How they balance safety and productivity every day.
Phase 3
Supervisors who meet these standards show they’re ready to sustain and grow a culture of safety and leadership excellence across your organization.
Optional