Behaviour Based Safety

INTRODUCTION

Most of the corporate honchos are not able to develop total safety culture as because there is a huge gap between their safety mindsets and safety behaviours. Most of our safety management systems have aimed at controlling unsafe conditions, whereas almost 100% of accidents are triggered by unsafe acts or behaviours. Even unsafe conditions are nothing but the result of unsafe behaviours. As unsafe behaviour is the root-cause of almost all accidents, it is very important to identify the at-risk behavior of the employees.

The Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) as an application of Behavioural Science has been widely implemented by most of the progressive industrial organizations. It aims to improve the safety culture leading to improved safety performance and increased productivity of an organisation, is a useful tool that involves mechanisms such as: awareness and assessment of existing state of safety culture; observation of employee behaviour that has a…