SIM Court™ is an engaging and effective training program that uses a simulated courtroom scenario to deliver powerful compliance and risk management messages. This innovative approach not only provides a refreshing alternative to conventional training but also demonstrates the real-life consequences of compliance failures. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of how risk management systems are essential and how non-compliance can have lasting personal and professional repercussions.
Course Format
SIM Court™ training is delivered in two modules:
Module 1:
- Provides a refresher on key Health, Safety, and Environmental principles
- Spells out individual and collective responsibilities in risk management
- Introduces participants to key concepts of litigation, regulatory tools, and applicable laws
- Establishes the foundation for the critical content in Module 2
Module 2:
- Features a simulated prosecution based on a real or tailored scenario involving policy, procedural, and human failures
- Demonstrates how non-compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental standards leads to regulatory action
- Highlights the practical purpose of risk management systems and their impact on individuals
- Engages sceptical participants by illustrating the tangible consequences of compliance failures
What Makes SIM Court™ an Impactful Training Experience?
- Real Courtroom Setting: Every session is conducted in an actual courtroom environment, immersing participants in a realistic and impactful learning experience.
- Expert Facilitation: Sessions are led by a dynamic partnership of experienced professionals—a seasoned safety expert and a skilled litigation lawyer. Their complementary expertise and spontaneous facilitation style ensure that no two SIM Court™ sessions are the same.
- Smaller Group Sizes: By capping participant numbers at 20, the training encourages active engagement and meaningful participation from all attendees.
- Interactive Learning: Participants take on courtroom roles, such as witnesses, defendants, or judges. The experience of being cross-examined by an experienced prosecutor is both challenging and unforgettable.
- Industry-Specific Scenarios: Scenarios are tailored to reflect your industry or workplace, ensuring relevance and direct applicability to participants’ roles and responsibilities.
- Theory Reinforced Through Practice: Key compliance and risk management concepts are brought to life through an interactive courtroom prosecution, ensuring participants connect theoretical knowledge with practical application.
- Memorable Impact: The courtroom simulation delivers lasting insights into the serious consequences of non-compliance.
- Benefits All Levels: Suitable for employees at all levels from new hires to senior managers.
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Curran Risk Management has delivered close to 300 SIM Courts™ since 2008, with an estimated reach of 5,000 participants. The program has been run in every Australian state and New Zealand.
Clients range from smaller companies to multinational organisations, government departments and utility providers. Some of these clients have received SIM CourtTM training for over a decade and now consider it an essential part of their training program.
“Essential training for any project team member whether Quality, Commercial, Procurement, Project Management or Engineering.” Certification and Safety Engineering Manager
“It showed how product safety can affect someone on an individual level and just how much scrutiny you can be put under.” Commercial and Procurement Officer
“Disturbingly effective!” Head of Project Management and Quality
“The course hit home that we are all responsible for product safety” Quality Assurance Engineer
“The context was specific to our work – real life! Very relevant, the presenters demonstrated a depth of real world experience” State Operations Manager