If you want a safety culture that lasts, compliance is the baseline – not the finish line. Here’s how our people-centred program helps teams make safer choices, every day.
In 2026, the safety conversations that cut through won’t be the ones that repeat the rulebook – they’ll be the ones that connect with real people. Downer RTS Our Safety Focus 2026 is designed to do exactly that: a modern, people-centred safety program that builds safer, stronger, more resilient organisations by focusing on how people actually think, feel, and decide.
What makes Our Safety Focus 2026 different?
We’ve built the program around four outcomes that matter to leaders and frontline teams alike—because the safest workplaces are the ones where people want to do the right thing.
- Whole-of-self safety – we look at physical, psychological and social safety at work and at home, because risk doesn’t end when people clock off.
- Behaviour changes that stick – grounded in positive psychology and human insight, we focus on why people make choices (not just what the rules say).
- Authentic engagement – personal stories and practical scenarios make safety relatable, meaningful and relevant to everyone (not just “safety people”).
- Proven outcomes – consistently high engagement and strong feedback, with many participants calling it one of the most impactful safety conversations they’ve had.
Safety can be a highly governed engagement at times, and the team have endeavoured to ensure that the 2026 training (supported by our partners Sentis and Visual Learning) was not only delivered with effectiveness but also impact.
As the results come in, we are delighted to see success across:
- A stronger safety culture, shaped by mindset, leadership and everyday behaviours
- More ownership, care and accountability for safety across the workforce
- Improved well-being, engagement and trust within and between teams
- A scalable, professionally designed learning experience – leading industry best practice!
- Better outcomes: consistent delivery that supports safer everyday decisions at work and home.
Here’s what some of our employees had to say about Our Safety Focus 2026.
“The content was engaging, and light hearted, yet still communicating the importance of Safety both at work and at home. The attention to our own mindsets and the very real examples provided helped me consider how I think about safety differently than I have in previous years.”
“Excellent viewpoints, and parallels between work and home. The personal videos were superbly done and really strengthened the personal connection aspects.”
“The content really made me to stop and think about the decisions I make on a daily basis”.
To see more of what our people had to say & learn more about Downer’s Our Safety Focus 2026, click here.
We’d love to hear from you!
If you’re ready to move beyond “tick-the-box” safety and build the kind of culture people choose, let’s start the conversation.
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