Behavioural Safety

BHEL- Yadadri, Thermal Power Station (5*800 MW) Project Site, Telengana.

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Behavioural Safety

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Behavioural Safety - Definition

►Safety – The condition of being protected from harm or

other danger, Or
The control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an
acceptable level of risk.
►Attitude – It is a feeling or way of thinking that affects a
person's behavior.
►Behaviour – It is the range of actions and mannerisms
made by individuals, systems or artificial entities in
conjunction with themselves or their environment, which
includes the other systems or organisms around as well as
the physical environment.
►Bihavioural Safety – It is a process that helps employees to
identify and choose a safe behavior over an unsafe one.
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Behavioural Safety - Definition

►Hazard – Hazard is an object, situation or behaviour that

has the potential to cause harm in terms of injury, ill health
or damage to property or the environment.
►Risk – Risk is the chance or probability that a person will be
harmed or experience an adverse health effect if exposed
to a hazard. It may also apply to situations with property or
equipment loss, or harmful effects on the environment.
►Unsafe Act – Any act by an employee that puts the
employee, another person or property at risk of injury or
damage. 
►Unsafe Condition – Any condition that could cause undue
hazard to life, limb or health of any person authorized or
expected to be on or about the premises.

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Behavioural Safety - Definition

►Incident – Any event that is either unpleasant or unusual.

►Impact – The force with which one thing hits another or with

which two things hit each other
►Injury – Any physical harm or damage to someone's body
caused by an accident or an attack.
►Accident – It is an unwanted, unexpected, uncontrolled,
unplanned and undesirable event which may lead to injury
or loss of life.

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Behavioural Safety – Major Causes of Accident

► Luck Factor ► Carelessness

► Over Confidence ► Depression

► Chance Taker ► Frustration

► Lack of Knowledge ► Tiredness

► Lack of Alertness ► Error of Judgement –

Mind, Place, Time, Ability
► Wrong Prediction
► Emotion – Loose Temper
► Influence of Drug

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Behavioural Safety – Causes of Injury

Most injuries are caused by unsafe acts and unsafe

behaviours, not due to unsafe conditions and equipment.

Fatal

This is a typical
condition for Result Major Injuries
(LTI / LTA)
all Industries.
Minor Injuries
(First-aid Cases)

Behaviour Unsafe Acts / Unsafe

Conditions

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Behavioural Safety – Impact Model
Most Accidents Some may be caused
occur when due to Unsafe Site
things look ok Conditions

Frequency / Severity
largely depends upon
on Luck

Telling people to Progress

take care, does through
not work Legislation is
also difficult

Behaviour Influences
Accident Potentials
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Behavioural Safety – Causes of Injury

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Behavioural Safety – Causes of Injury

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Behavioural Safety – Impact Model

Perception Activator

Consequence
Attitude

Safe At Risk

Thoughts / Behaviour
Intent
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Behavioural Safety – Principle

►Safety in the workplace is a combination of three

measurable components:
 the person,

 their environment, and

 their behavior.

►Only when these three elements are combined then

only the workplace accidents can be eliminated.

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Behavioural Safety – Principle

►The person component consist of the employees,

 Physical capabilities
 Experience
 Training

►The work environment represents,

 Engineering controls
 Equipment
 Job / Task
 Work culture

►The final and most often overlooked component is

behavior,
 What and How the person does on the job?

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Behavioural Safety – How it Works?

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Behavioural Safety – 4 Pillars / Process

►Observation and Measurement –

 Observations provide direct and measurable information

on employees’ safe / unsafe work practices.
 Employees are observed while performing their routine
task.
 The observer documents both safe and unsafe
behaviors.
 The observations are documented by using a specified
checklist focusing major unsafe behaviours related to the
work place.

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Behavioural Safety – 4 Pillars / Process

►Feedback and Recommendation –

 The employee is then provided positive feedback on the

safe behaviors and non-threatening feedback on the
unsafe behaviors.
 They are also provided with suggestions on correcting
the unsafe behaviors.
 Facilitate, support and act upon recommendations.

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Behavioural Safety – 4 Pillars / Process

►Behavioural and Root Cause Analysis –

 Analysis is done on monthly / quarterly / half yearly /

annually basis.
 Analysis is based on the trends identified (Safe vs
Unsafe)
 The data is then analyzed to determine the employee’s
(or department’s / contractor’s) improvement in safe
behaviors.
 It can be looked at as an overall percentage.

Example: If there were 20 items on the checklist and

the worker performed 17 of them safely, then he would
get a score of 85% safe.
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Behavioural Safety – 4 Pillars / Process

►Trend –

 The improvement between observations could be

graphed and displayed for employees to view.
 When the graphs shows improvement, it provides
positive reinforcing feedback to employees.

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Behavioural Safety – 4 Pillars / Process

►Implementation –

 Setting improvement goals increases the effectiveness

of feedback and the success of the behavior-based
safety process.

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Behavioural Safety – Summary

► Measuring the safe and unsafe behaviours in planned interval.

► Provide positive support of safe behaviours.

► Modify unsafe behaviours by eliminating root causes.

► Set numerical targets for safe / unsafe behavioural progress.

► Developing a set of training activities on required skills.

► Implementing Reward, Recognition and Consequence Management.

► Target the behaviours on short term and attitudes on long term.

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Behavioural Safety – Outputs

► Increased Efficiency

► Increased Productivity

► Increased Morale

► Increase profitability

► Increase Safe Work Environment

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Behavioural Safety – Management Responsibility

► Visibly demonstrate leadership in implementation of management’s

programme.
► Establish health & safety as a priority and core value of the
company.
► Reinforce that proper management of health & safety improves
performance.
► Integrate employee well being in all activities.

► Provide necessary resources.

► Develop a consequence management system using negative and

positive reinforcement.

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Behavioural Safety – How to Achieve?

► Ensure all employees are accountable.

► Participate in shop floor evaluation of how people perform.

► Reinforce people for working safely.

► Include health & safety performance as a key business

indicator.
► Foster involvement of all employees.

► Ensure right people on the right job.

► Behave in a manner that is, and is seen to be, consistent

with the company’s values / the health & safety program.

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Behavioural Safety – Summary

Your BEHAVIOUR

IMPACTS the rest

Nothing is so important that it cannot be done safely!

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