Traditional safety approaches can only take safety performance so far – addressing Behavioural Safety is necessary to take your safety performance to the next level.

This one-day course will introduce you to the thinking behind Behavioural Safety and the approaches used to implement a Behavioural Safety programme. It will be of interest to:

• Health and Safety managers
• Departmental managers
• Site leaders
• Team Leaders and Supervisors
• Process Safety Managers for the insights into Human Factors

To drive site safety to world class standards, one has to address the behaviours and attitudes of personnel. This requires an understanding of why people behave in undesirable ways in order to address the drivers of those behaviors. Taking a blame approach is never useful and indeed can cause a lot more harm than good as issues can be driven underground and conflicts in required behaviors can continue or be created.

A behavioural safety programme aims to bring issues out into the open so they can be discussed and dealt with. This increases employee involvement and engagement – a critical aspect of Behavioural Safety.

While a Behavioural Safety programme is traditionally targeted at occupational safety (slips, trips and falls), it provides valuable insights into Human Factors with benefits for Process Safety, and for incident investigations into unplanned events (including quality and production incidents) in identifying deeper root causes and hence more effective countermeasures.