SSE is opening the doors of its Faskally Safety Leadership Centre to organisations across Scotland and the UK as part of its commitment to strengthening safety culture across high-risk sectors.
The multi-million-pound facility offers an immersive safety training experience, delivered by Active Training Team (ATT), that blends film and live action to help participants build the leadership skills needed to improve decision-making, influence behaviours, and reduce risk in the workplace.
Since opening in 2024, the Centre has hosted nearly 9,000 SSE employees and contract partners. SSE is now making the facility available more widely to support businesses across Scotland and the UK that are looking to develop more robust safety cultures within their own organisations. 
The move reflects SSE’s belief that safety leadership should be shared across industry, particularly in sectors where people undertake high-risk operations every day. By opening the centre to other organisations, SSE aims to support wider collaboration and help raise standards beyond its own operations.
The immersive training is designed to embed behavioural change over time rather than treat safety as a one-off classroom exercise. This includes a newly launched modular approach focused on managing self, influencing others, and leading others, helping participants apply learning in real-world environments between sessions.
Mark Patterson, Group Safety, Health and Environment Director at SSE, said: “We carry out thousands of high-risk operations every day across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Our challenge is to make every task safe for every person including our employees, our partners, and the communities we serve. Through ATT’s immersive training programme and the Faskally Centre, we’ve supported thousands of people to develop the safety leadership skills our industry needs. By opening the doors to organisations across the sector, including our peers, we want to share that learning more widely and help strengthen safety culture right across the industry.”
Dermot Kerrigan, Director at Active Training Team, said: “Safety leadership and safety culture cannot be taught in a classroom; they must be lived repeatedly, reinforced, and embedded into daily practice. We’re proud to support SSE in extending the reach of the Faskally Safety Leadership Centre so that more organisations can benefit from immersive training that helps create lasting behavioural change.”
SSE hosted a showcase event the Faskally Safety Leadership Centre to organisations from across the sector at an event in May, bringing together professionals working in health and safety, HR, and operational leadership roles within high-risk industries.
