Behavioral Safety Management

Course Overview

Behavioural Safety Management is an approach used to address the link between the behaviour of the workforce and workplace accidents. It is also known as Behaviour-based safety. This is an areas that is increasingly studied in WSH to develop better safety cultures in organisations.

The field focuses on reducing hazards, risks, and incidents by observing the behaviour of a person and determining what follows when this behaviour occurs. It involves designing parameters to examine, review and implement programs to mitigate these behaviours.

Course Learning Outcome

• To establish Behavioural Safety Programme (BSP) design parameters and set up BSP Steering and Working Committees to implement according to the BSP specifications
• To evaluate BSP performance outcomes to rectify performance gaps

Learning Units

1. Characteristics of behavioural safety versus traditional safety
2. Behavioural Safety Programme (BSP) design parameters
3. Organisational readiness study methodologies
4. Types of at-risk and critical behaviours, including critical health symptoms that cause accidents and incidents at the workplace
5. Modes and frequency of data collection
6. Roles and responsibilities of BSP Working and Steering Committees
7. Training for BSP Working and Steering Committees
8. Relevant stakeholders in BSP implementation
9. Types of data collected for analyses during BSP
10. Types of BSP review techniques and tools
11. Types of BSP performance gaps
12. Types of corrective and preventive actions to rectify BSP performance gaps