Behavioural Safety Workshop

Course Aims

There is a clear link between your employees’ attitude to health and safety and both the management and culture of the organisation. It is not one person’s job but the role of each individual in your organisation.

The Behavioural Safety Workshop will enable the participants to understand how they can develop and deliver a safety culture that influences everyone’s behaviours and supports a safe environment for all. It covers why accidents happen, our attitude to risk, what risks do you have, understanding human behaviour and how we can influence it and finally how you can break bad habits and old ways of working.

Behavioural Safety workshop conducted on-line, through Zoom, for groups of up to 12 participants. It would be 3 hours in length, interactive, involve group exercises & discussions, breaks, videos etc. and would be supported with appropriate worksheets.

• Welcome & Introduction
• Check-in From your perspective which companies or organisations have a great health and safety reputation? What is it that they specifically do that makes it great?
• Why do accidents happen? The chain of events, unplanned events and outcomes, Swiss cheese model & the iceberg model.
• Risk Attitude – understanding our attitude to risk and what influences it.
• Probability & Risk – how these two parameters impact out thinking and our approach.
• What risks does your Organisation have? – brainstorm exercise - make sure that they cover occupational, visitor and public risks.
• What is culture? Human behaviour, desired behaviours – Observability, measurability, reliability and the dead man test. Need to specify the behaviour you want to see.
• Human Behaviour. Understanding and influencing behaviour – the TBC Model of trigger-behaviour-consequence. Illustrated with simple examples re answering or not answering a phone call and then a work related example the use or not of ear defenders. However, we could change this to life vests if that was more appropriate?
• Controlling versus Influencing behaviour – how to best influence others, reduce stress and manage risks.
• Pinocchio Impact – we all lie or are economical with the truth.
• Breaking bad habits – 6 simple steps that can make a difference and help others and ourselves change their behaviours and attitudes. How to identify the ‘hook’ – what is important to them? The ugly zone where we have to learn new ways of working or doing things.
• The positive and negative impact of ‘Routine’ – understanding the need for visibility, consistency, champions and learning new things.
• Checkout – What are you committing to start, stop or continue doing?
• Close