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Posted By W P F
Anyone got any good presentations which to view to develop a brief 20 minute session on behavioural aspects of incidents / accidents occurring in the workplace?
We are using a 4 minute dvd which is a provacative display of the 'accident' who is a female and is waiting for you to do something wrong in order to get you. However, I want to add to it and explain the importance of Behavioural Based Safety, and the fact that 90% of accidents happen in 'safe conditions', therefore, it is the unsafe act, that is the underlying cause in most respects.
We don't have a blame culture, nor do we want one, we are looking to deliver to the entire organisation, so any assistance appreciated, video clips etc.
Thanks
Wazza
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Posted By Lukasz
Recently I read research which said that people which feel safer will take more risk than people without such provision of safety...
In that case it was explained on people which fasten seat belts and drive less carefully and cause more accidents than people fastening seat belts...
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Posted By Kieran J Duignan
Wazza
A mixture of good intuition and questionable assumptions appear to underly your statement 'it is the unsafe act, that is the underlying cause'.
Substantial research by James Reason - cited in HSG48, Reducing Error and Influencing Behaviour' - demonstrates how the underlying causes lie much, much more often in failures of design and of management decision-making than in alleged 'unsafe acts' by front-line staff.
Reason is probably the UK's most influential safety psychology in the area of cognitive/organsiational ergonomics. I have a presentation based on his research (and on other research about the relationships between thinking and actions), from which you might wish to select some slides. The metaphor of mountainclimbing is used to indicate the underlying chocies - which are those facing managers much more than the operatives. In this instance, the design problems indicate how 'unsafe acts' are mainly due to fundamental failures in design of work conditions and provision of tools and equipment that oblige operatives to work unsafely more than 50% of their day, every day.
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Posted By peter gotch
Wazza - almost all accidents are multicausal.
Research by HSE's former Accident Prevention Advisory Unit concluded that 90% of fatal accidents were preventable by reasonably practicable precautions, and that management preconditions were associated with the vast majority of this 90%.
The problem is that too many incident investigations fail to get down to the root causes, let alone then adequately communicate the lessons to be learnt.
Regards, Peter
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Posted By nigelwido
If you would like to contact me I can send you some BBS powerpoints.
Nigel
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Posted By Kieran J Duignan
Warren
As you state that 'we are looking to deliver to the entire organisation', it may be worth spending the time requried to appreciate the nature and limits of reliable, valid kinds of behavioural interventions in organsiations.
It takes some 'heavy (psychological) lifting' to appreciate how well any specific form of behavioural intervention actually works. After reading guides to 'behavioural safety' by all the leading American and British writers on behavioural safety, I'd recommend reading
a. 'Research methods for organisational studies', by Donald Schwab
b. 'Research methods in social psychology' by Dana Dunn.
Both are available on Amazon.
If you really do want a title by a safety practitioner, it is likely that the one coming out on 22.9.2000 by Dominic Cooper will also be particularly good; you can sign up for it through his website at BSMS Inc.
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Posted By Andrew Bruce Heron
I have a very good 2 minute video which may be useful.i can send on .
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Posted By Peter Tanczos
Further to Lukasz's post, I overheard the following comment the other day,
"Just imagine how much safer the roads would be if every driver had a spike positioned a couple of inches from his forehead and no seat belts"
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