Behavioural Based Safety

Ref	HS 640
Dates	5 - 9 December 2010
Venue	Dubai
Fees	US$ 3850
CPE Credits	30

INTRODUCTION

There are good reasons to target the behavioural aspects of health and safety as part of an overall integrated approach to health and safety management. During the past 10 years, large improvements in health and safety performance have been achieved through improved hardware and design and through improved health and safety management systems and procedures. However, the industry's health and safety performance has leveled out with little significant changes in performance being achieved during the past few years. A new and different approach is required to encourage further improvements in a company’s health and safety performance. This next step involves taking action to ensure that the behaviour of people at all levels within the organization are consistent with an improving human factors of behavior based safety culture.

It is well known, through research, that over 80% of these accidents and incidents are caused by unsafe behaviour of people in both management and in the workforce. In this programmeme you will look in-depth at the factors that impact on human errors and related behavioural aspects

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Professionals from all levels and disciplines in the organisation who have HSE responsibilities within their role. No previous expereince in health and safety or behavioural safety is necessary as adequate guidance is given during this programmeme through individual and group activities

PROGRAMMEME OBJECTIVES

• Understand what behaviour is?
• Know why people are prepared to take unnecessary risk
• Be able to observe and assess behaviour at work
• Understand ‘latent’ and ‘active’ failure
• Know how to change at risk behavior (latent and active)
• Know how to introduce these tools into their organization
• How improve risk perception within the organization
• Know the seven main categories of human failure
• Know what safety culture is and how it is measured
• Know how to conduct a Safety Culture survey
• Know how to develop action plans & continuous improvement

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Participants will learn by active participation during the programmeme through the use of exercises and group discussion, videos and discussions on "real life" issues in their organisations.

PROGRAMMEME SUMMARY

The delegates will understand how human factors impact Health and Safety performance and they will be provided with the tools and skills to introduce into their organisation:

• Behavioural improvement programmeme
• Safety Culture improvement programmeme

PROGRAMMEME OUTLINE

DAY 1 - Health & Safety Management System

• Leadership and safety culture aspects
• Organization, resources and documentation
• Human error and risk assessment techniques
• Behaviour based safety concepts
• Syndicate Exercise
• Review of Day 1

DAY 2 - Importance of Behavioural Issues

• Impact of behaviour on safety
• Behaviour, safety culture and safety climate
• Improving behavioural safety and business together
• Behavioural change model
• The effect of peer pressure on individual’s performance
• Syndicate Exercise
• Review of Day 2

DAY 3 - Behavioural Improvement Process

• The ‘Assess’ stage - use of diagnostic tools
• The ‘Plan’ stage: selection of behavioural intervention tools
• The ‘Hearts and Minds’ behavioural programmeme
• Types and Impacts of Human Errors
• Task aspects that influence human factors
• Case Studies: Reactive Chemical Explosions and Behavioural aspects
• Syndicate Exercise
• Review of Day 3

DAY 4 - Human Factors and Behavioural Influences

• Health and Safety management - the PSM programmeme
• Behavioural and accident prevention programmeme
• Accident investigation of behavioural issues
• Case Studies: Bhopal Disaster
• Syndicate Exercise
• Review of Day 4

DAY 5 - Behavioural Change Framework

• Step-by-step implementation of behavioural change programmeme
• Developing behavioural appraisal questionnaires
• Personal action plans and the way ahead
• Case Study: Piper Alpha offshore disaster
• Syndicate Exercise - Accident Analysis
• Review of Programmemes Key Points and Discussion Forum

 

 

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