Simon Holmes Presents

Behavioural Safety Program

What Will We Be Covering?

Effective

SHE management What is a behavioural safety programme? Seven stage action plan Summary The benefits Questions

Key Factors For Effective SHE Management

Policies Standards Risk Assessments Audits

People

Procedures

Engineering Controls

Communication

Not Operating Excavator As Per Safe Systems Of Work

What Is A Behavioural Safety Programme?

A behavioural safety programme is designed to modify peoples behaviour whilst working, leading to improved safety culture and performance
Behaviour Modification
Positive Negative

Achieving SHE Improvement

Continuous Improvement CULTURE & BEHAVIOUR

I m p r o v e m e n t

e.g. Involvement, training, recognition, ownership

PROCEDURES & SYSTEMS

e.g. SOPs, Risk Assessments Spillage procedures

PLANT & EQUIPMENT

e.g. Hazard Studies, PHR, SHE Critical Equipment, Plant Mods., Guarding

Time

ACTION PLAN

Are We Ready?

Interview management

Commitment Budget Trust Communication Health and safety committee

Attitude towards HSE Communication Adaptability (Training?) Volunteers?

Interview frontline workforce

Staff Buy-in
Lead

by example Dont expect staff to change their behaviour until they see you change yours!

Get

everyone involved Health and safety is everyone's responsibility! Newsletters, competitions, prizes, score boards and workshops

Workshop Plan

Interactive, enjoyable workshop

Individuals explore the balance between benefits and consequences

Allows staff to realise that safety benefits them as individuals

Helps towards making people behave safely instinctively

Consequences

Benefit

Select A Driving Team

Identify

a process driver for each area (e.g. Line managers)

to ensure effective implementation to encourage active workforce involvement to measure the success of the project (observers)

Training
Identify

volunteers/key personnel who will be driving the programme forward Assess whether in-house training is possible (budget control) Assess exact training requirements i.e. observation training, identifying critical safety behaviours and staff motivation!

Critical Behaviours
Prepare a critical behaviour list by researching the companys risk assessments, accident investigation reports and most importantly talking to the staff.

Preliminary Critical Behaviour List

Separate waste for recycling purposes (house keeping) Wear hard-hats whilst working in the warehouse Wear dust masks whilst working with hazardous chemicals Workers not to climb on storage shelving Must use spill tray during Dettol tank changeover Managers to visit their work areas weekly

Establish Baseline
Analyse data for lost time injuries, near miss incidents and accident figures for the last six months to produce a benchmark to monitor the success of the programme.

Observation Process Keep The Programme Alive

Staff

self observation (observation cards) Safety tours by management Upward feedback (communication!) Create opportunities for individual involvement and participation Further training

Summary
Assess

cultural readiness Gain management and workforce support Select driving team Behavioural safety training Specify critical behaviour list Establish baseline Observation and feedback process

The Benefits
Improved Motivates

safety culture

staff to take personal responsibility morale, leading to improved production costs and downtime

Improves

Reduced

Questions