Health Safety Environmental Solutions Limited has successfully introduced behavioural safety programmes as a new means of helping employers control workplace risks with the UK, Europe and North America.

Statistics show that human behaviour contributes to the cause of 80-90% of all accidents in the workplace. Health Safety Environmental Solutions has developed behavioural safety initiatives, which are designed to reduce the number of accidents occurring.

These initiatives have proven to be successful across a wide range of industries, and typically include the following elements:

• development of a safety performance measure
  
• monitoring by trained observers to establish a baseline
  
• setting goals for improvement in health and safety standards
  
• further monitoring to establish progress
  
• reinforcement of safe behaviours
  
• interventions to correct unsafe behaviour

"Health Safety Environmental Solutions use unique, tried and tested methodologies to promote total commitment to safety. Because our approach focuses on measuring improvements that contribute to preventing accidents, the safety performance measure becomes a platform for pride for each group of employees and the organisation as a whole”, said Phil Atkinson of Health Safety Environmental Solutions.

Behaviour based safety is not a replacement for existing safety management systems. Employer’s primary duties will always be to provide a safe place of work and safe plant and equipment. For those employers who have reached the accident plateau however, or are approaching it, Health Safety Environmental Solutions can now provide the tools to achieve further progress towards achieving the goal of zero accidents.

Managing and Leading Safely Training Programme

Research into the causes of incidents reveals that the root, or basic causes, of 94% of all accidents and incidents are unsafe acts by people, not failure of plant and equipment.

Traditionally most organisations focus on systems and standards, and these remain key to an effective safety management system. However, in order to progress to world class safety we must also focus our efforts on the behaviour of people.

Behavioural assessment is a key skill and technique that helps us to do this. This programme has been developed to train all levels of management within organisations in behavioural assessment skills so that they can actively engage with employees on safety issues and address unsafe acts in the workplace.

This programme is applicable to all managers from executives to line managers to functional managers.

Course duration: 3 days