I would like to add Human factors and human behaviour as a module to the company's HSE management system. I know it is a very deep topic and complicated.
Would members like to give their views on 'How human behaviour is inter-linked to a safety culture?'.
Information and suggestions would be appreciated on how to start this project.

Hi PH2
Thanks for the information, I have read the up on this topic a bit including the IOSH Behavioural Safety and the HSE RR430 but not the other one you have mentioned - HSE Human factors briefing note no.1.
Many thanks
Stuart Rees

Hi David
Thanks for the input, from what I have read on the subject and from past case histories of accidents and there are many ones to chose from, the design has been blamed a lot. Now with engineering systems getting better designs (hopefully) and the rest of what you say follows on and makes sense. Particular in that all operations are different so a bespoke behaviour program is required.
Many thanks David.
Stuart

Lojikglos
Thanks for the website, just been on it and it has some really useful topics.
Many thanks
Stuart

Staurt :
I am not sure what type of work you have , but I am going to share with you what we had in our company which is mainly Oil and Gas producer.

We have developed a module for Behaviour Based Safety System, this module is simply a pyramid , on one side of this pyramid we have 5 parts where Accidents part is on the top , then Proprety damage , near misses , undesirable behaviors then finally root causes which is on the base. To minimise accidents or near misses we have to work on the root causes and undesirable behaviors, by increasing the safety culture and involvement of the employee. How ?

On the other side of the pyramids we have the tools which we use it for each of these parts for examples:
Root causes : we train our work force to use some tools such as Job Hazard Analysis and last minute Risk Assessment prior starting any hazard or potential task .
Undersirable behaviors: we have some tools called Behavior Observation , where an employee observes others for any incorrect behavior and this tools includes Ergonomics , Driving ,Carrying and lifting tecniques.
Near Misses : we encourage our workforce to report near misses and there is monthly rewards for the best nearmiss report.
All these tools above are Proactive tools , which we have to encourage our workforce for using them. However if Accident, incident or any damage occured , we have to use reactive tools which include incident investigation, to eventually determine the root couses of this accident then start again from the base of the Pyramide for the corrective actions.

Please should you need any more information , let me know.

Shaibani
Hi, thank you for sharing that information with me.
I was employed in the oil and gas industry overseas until just recently, now I am getting to grips with settling back here in the UK.
We used some thing similar to what you have described, using the oil and gas producers standards (OGP) as guidelines but using our own procedures, it was Task Observation Process (TOPS) which is more behaviour based than its original format. Also using similar tools to what you have described.
I used to deliver the HSE management system training which is why I asked the question above.
Any details would be most welcome.
Thanks
Stuart