Same Teams Safer Outcomes

Stronger Teams, Safer Outcomes

Safety depends on how people work together and how they communicate hazards, coordinate tasks, respond to concerns, and make decisions under pressure. Across Idaho’s diverse workplaces, these interactions may span production teams, contractors, shifts, and geographically dispersed crews. Building trust and shared expectations is essential to making those connections work.

This interactive 2-hour session explores how safety professionals can strengthen team effectiveness, trust, and safety. Participants will reflect on their experiences in effective and struggling teams to identify visible and hidden influences on teamwork, including individual tendencies, unspoken norms, competing priorities, and assumptions about responsibility.

Using the Input–Process–Outcome (I-P-O) model, participants will examine how team conditions and everyday interactions shape trust and performance over time. Practical discussions will address real life situations.

By the End of This Course, Participants Will Be Able To:

· Explore how team dynamics shape culture in intended and unintended ways.

· Examine visible and hidden factors that influence team performance, safety, and decision-making.

· Use a framework to understand how teams’ function and what influences their results.

· Explore the four components of trust and how they shape everyday team interactions.

· Practice using a team superpower.