Behavioural Based Safety

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Protecting Our People

The behavioural based safety package uses the most advanced Human Factor support material that includes an interactive DVD and manual which is aimed at the steel construction industry.

The Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) Training Package and its supporting material has been specifically developed to help managers and supervisors acquire new techniques and improved skills which will enable them to satisfy the safety responsibilities of their work. Good safety correlates well with good performance generally. The member companies that introduce the BBS will be making an investment.

Modern safety theories firmly place the responsibility for creating a good safety climate upon line managers. A positive safety climate is not something that can be taken for granted, it has to be managed. It is for this reason that managers must strive to extend their safety knowledge and skills in order to achieve high levels of safety in their area of responsibility.

BBS is primarily a management and supervisory tool and when embraced by an organisation, with a structured regime, it provides a systematic approach to establishing a strong and robust safety culture within the work place. BBS will need to be pro-actively managed to ensure it is introduced and maintained and provides managers and supervisors with the process and skills to help them fulfil this expectation.

Objectives

BBS is based upon techniques that have been proved in many different industries to have dramatic effect upon the safety related behaviours at all levels within the organisation.

The behaviours of people are fundamental to safety in the workplace. Without control, safety related behaviours in an organisation could be good or bad. Poor safety behaviour is sometimes termed working at risk or unsafe acts when applied to those performing hazardous operations. Equally, poor safety supervision or poor managerial control of safety could be termed unsafe acts in their own right.

It is generally accepted that 98% of all accidents are due to the unsafe acts of people. BBS can assist in developing and maintaining good safety performance by being presented in an attractive and entertaining format, there are five self-contained chapters plus an interactive hazard spotting section:

• Why behaviours are important and how they combine to form a safety culture.
• How to develop an analysis based approach that is the cornerstone of continuous learning and a just culture.
• How to approach people who are behaving unsafely so as to minimise defensiveness and awkwardness.
• How to give good formal verbal communications, get the most from meetings and make more time to be pro-active in your safety management.
• How to develop 'leading' measures of safety culture and fully engage the workforce.
• A hazard spotting section where a number of key safety behaviours are highlighted in an interactive fashion.

BBS will help in changing from a culture that:

• Condones unsafe practices
• Reacts to accidents and concentrates on statistics
• Treats safety as an extra or add on part of the business
• Sees safety as "someone else's responsibility"

To a culture that:

• Observes, identifies and eradicates unsafe acts
• Is proactive in safety and concerned about people
• Integrates safety into the greater business culture
• Accepts that safety is a personal responsibility for everyone within the organisation

Copies of the DVD Package cost £120 + VAT and are available to BCSA Members only by contacting:

BCSA Publications
4 Whitehall Court
Westminster
London
SW1A 2ES

Tel: 0207 839 8566