Safety

Intervention
Safety Intervention
What is a Safety Intervention?
• A discussion by one of more people with an individual or a group
regarding an observation of a potential unsafe act, practice or
procedure.

Why is a Safety Intervention Necessary?

• To provide safety environment to everyone.
• To prevent an accident / injury / fatality.

Who Performs a Safety Intervention?

• ANYONE who sees a potential unsafe act or condition.

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Why People Don’t Intervene in Unsafe Acts/Condition

• By-stander Effect

• Fear that their job will become harder or they’ll

have to do more work if they intervene

• Unsuccessful attempts in the past

• Statistic done in Singapore of top reason people

do not intervene in workplace

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How to intervention?

Seek first to understand, then seek to be understood.

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Alluvion Walkway Intervention

 You are walking through the city, along a walkway between buildings and you come
across this?

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Alluvion Walkway Intervention
Stuart Calvert, BHP Project team member working in
Perth noticed something wasn’t quiet right on the
walkway leading into the Alluvion building, a couple
of week’s ago on a Sunday. And he chose Option D.

• He noticed that the concrete slab walkway over

Mercantile Lane (between Westralia Square and
the Alluvion building) had dropped approx. 50mm.
• He found the contact details for Building
Management and got in touch with the Building
Engineer.
• He contacted security and the City of Perth
Rangers, who arrived on site within 15 minutes, and
barricaded the area.
• A Spotter/Security guard was on site directing
pedestrians away from the area.

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Alluvion Walkway Intervention
Catastrophic failure occurred at 3:30pm, on Monday.
Just 24 hours later……….