Motivating Your Workforce to

Behave Safely
A training pack for Dutyholders, Managers and Supervisors
 Session 1
Objectives
 To understand the key risk taking
behaviours that lead to the top ten fatalities
in construction.

 To show you that the causes of fatalities

are often minor.

 To remind you that if you do not die you

may end up with a health condition or
disability that may stop you from working.
 Exercise 1

What do you think are the

main causes of fatalities on
construction sites?
• Top 10 Identified Causes of
Fatalities

- Fall from a ladder-

- Fall through a fragile roof covering
- During lifting operations
- Being struck by moving plant
- Falls from scaffolds
- Fall down an internal void
- Asphyxiation by fumes
- Crushed by falling excavation
- Trapped and crushed by MEWP
 Exercise 2

1. What are the behaviours or actions

that would have happened just before
this fatality occurred?

2. Why might this have happened?

(Think about the management, policy,
procedure, worker and team).
 Exercise 3

1. What could you, as a front line operative, do differently to

avoid that fatality from occurring?

2. What do you think management and the organisation

could have in place, or do differently, to prevent that
fatality occurring?
 Session 2

Objective

To identify common risk

scenarios.
 Using our ABC
 When we want to investigate the things that lead to safe
or unsafe behaviour we sometimes use ‘ABC analysis’.
It helps us look at those behaviours and work out whether
they are likely to happen again.

 We can use this information to reduce or remove the

things that will lead to unsafe behaviour and reduce or
remove the things that keep making people behave
unsafely.

 We can also use this information to do more of the things

that help people work more safely and to encourage them
to keep on doing these.

 Okay, so let’s break the ABC down a bit more!

 ABC

Activators

Behaviours

Consequences
 Example of ABC Chart:

Activators(A) Behaviours(B) Consequences

(What factors lead to (Risk taking or (C)
risky behaviour?) protective (What factors or
behaviours). events happen as a
result of the
behaviour?)
Fellow workers Not wearing Take risks like
do not wear hearing your
hearing protection. workmates.
protection.
Wearing the Risk of
Knowledge that right PPE for the damaging
hearing task. hearing.
protection is
supplied.
Think about the situations where
you’ve had an accident or where
you escaped a serious incident.
 Five examples of poor safety behaviours:

 Not wearing RPE/face mask when kerb

cutting (using vibratory machinery) or
block cutting. Silicosis risk.
 Using gas heaters/generators in enclosed
spaces without adequate ventilation.
 Plant drive walking in front of an
excavator while the plant was moving.
 Storing paving slabs off site that then
kills a young child clambering over the
slabs.
 Raising a tipper lorry without checking
for overhead power lines.
 Things to Remember!
 There are a variety of consequences to poor
safety behaviour. Some take longer to show
themselves (e.g. occupational asthma, poor
hearing).
 This is not just about getting killed. You could
be left with a disability or poor health.
 Prevention is straightforward.
 Everyone is responsible for the health, safety
and welfare of workers in this company; this
includes you, your workmates, supervisor and
manager.
 Take Control

SLAM
…and if it is not safe…

STOP!
 Session 3
Objectives:

To think about the consequences of engaging

in poor safety behaviours.

To understand that even when things appear

to be right not everything will have been
anticipated, meaning that accidents can
happen.
 “There’s Bob not
wearing hearing
protection again.”

What happens next?

Scenario 2
“I need to paint at the
top there. I can’t
reach! I know… I’ll
get a ladder…that
should help.”
 Scenario 3

 
                                         
Someone repairing a
leaking roof light on a
fragile roof using a
Youngman’s board (60c,
wide board, lightweight
1.5-2m board)…

What happens next?

Someone is about to go down a 2 metre
excavation next to this JCB in operation…
What happens next?
 Session 4

Objective

Lets recap on the discussions that

have taken place and remind
ourselves of the key messages from
the sessions….
 Key Messages
 The simplest of things can cause fatalities.
 Accidents happen for a variety of reasons.
 Accidents can happen as a result of
something someone else has done earlier.
 Disability and death can happen in the
present as well as in the future.
 Prevention is straightforward.
 Everyone has a shared responsibility.
 There are ways of overcoming barriers.
 Workers have the right to STOP (SLAM).
 Thank you for taking part
Now go put this into practice!