Course Structure & Content
In your business, are unsafe behaviours undermining your health and safety management system and increasing the chances of workplace accidents?
Despite the risk assessments and safe procedures written, company rules and legal requirements people still take risks – why is that? Behavioural safety questions such as this are useful as a starting point to explore the issue of behavioural safety and how this contributes to health and safety management as a whole. Our course will demonstrate some of the answers as to what is really going on and why people behave the way they do.
It is said that a large percentage of what we do in a typical day is completed on automatic pilot or by established habits. So why don’t we use this powerful driver to change our working habits to make them safer?
Unsafe behaviour is common practice in most teams. They have got into bad habits at some point in time and have repeated it for so long that they are not conscious of the behaviour or of its potential consequences. Responses such as “We’ve always done it like this” or “I’ve don’t this job for over 30 years – why change it now”, are common when challenging people on why someone is behaving a certain way at work
Unsafe behaviours are therefore common, and statistically, according to the various versions of the accident triangle, there are a number of outcomes gradually reducing in chances of happening but increasing in severity and life-changing potential. If 1 in 2 million unsafe acts results in a workplace fatality and there are around 140 fatalities at work in the UK statistically there must have been approximately 280 million unsafe acts.
The major objective of this training course to raise awareness and encourage managers and employees in the organisation to make safe behaviour a habit – not just when they are being watched or audited. Management behaviour and leading by example is extremely powerful in bringing about consistent high standards of safety-related behaviour.
Safe behaviour means workers are present, are fit and well, motivated, and productive. Safe behaviour means fewer accidents and all of the crippling costs to the organisation associated with accidents.
To support you and your organisation by empowering your staff at all levels of the business to make a contribution to positive change, 16 Degree Shift Training and Consultancy Ltd bring you a one-day introduction to behavioural safety. It is true to say we unlikely to radically change the workforce and their habits overnight because of one day in the training room, however, the issues discussed and having the course is tailored to your specific issues should provoke / motivate / inspire enough action to begin the journey of positive change.
The outputs of the course include collaborative ideas from everyone at all levels on what in the organisation needs to change, what the potential barriers may be and what each person is personally going to commit to as their contribution to improving safety culture.
If the commitment to improving safety is thereby senior management as well as managers and employees, the organisation should be able to carry on the journey of positive culture change where everyone is playing a part in keeping themselves and each other safe.
If the workforce starts to see changes they suggested during the training – it gives the right message as to the commitment of the senior management to get it right, accept and act upon their input and ultimately keep them safe at work.
This will hopefully lead to further organisational learning, curiosity on behavioural safety techniques, behavioural safety management and a behavioural safety framework that then goes on to becomes an integral part of the safety management system and an ongoing driver for a positive health and safety culture.
- Results from two large companies after rolling out this training – more engagement, co-operation and reduce accident rates – reported by the Ops Manager of a large well-known manufacturer within 6 months of rolling out the course
- Engaging with workers at all levels on their daily challenges and ideas for improvement. Analysing the influences upon behaviour is a revolutionary approach to managing workplace risks and changing habit to achieve a positive safety culture.
- Use your own company examples to support learning.
Course Assessment
There isn’t any assessment. Documented discussion points and personal commitments made to the improvement of health and safety standards and the culture as a whole.
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