BEHAVIOUR BASED SAFETY GUIDE BETTER, …

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BEHAVIOUR BASEDSAFETY GUIDEDOING WHAT WE DOBETTER, SMARTER, SAFEROur vision: A country where worker SAFETY , health and welfareand the safe management of chemicals are centralto successful enterpriseMore and more we need to look at newapproaches to achieving safe and healthyworkplaces. We need to apply the learningfrom the many years of analyses of accidentsand ill health because this will contribute tofuture prevention strategies and BASED SAFETY (BBS) is an approachthat we believe can be applied successfully; itis gaining more interest across industry sectorsglobally and has the great advantage ofneeding the involvement of the individualemployee, in addition of course, to employercommitment. How often have we experienced situations inwhich an employee s competence in a workprocess is assessed at the point that they leavethe training room with the assumption that,once learned, the process will be appliedcorrectly and safely?

Behaviour Based Safety Guide Introduction Various approaches have had reasonable success in reducing unsafe behaviours in the workplace. Some …

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