| Safety audits, risk assessments and safety training |
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| A Reflective Approach to Safety Our approach to safety was transformed when we stumbled onto some behavioural economic papers around 10 years ago. It should be noted that these behavioural papers we looked at were very different to the theories behind the explosion in Behaviour-based-safety (BBS). This new information challenged us to review our existing approaches for both safety training and even accident investigations, and to question some of the most basic safety principles. The results of this reflection and some hard work allowed us to significantly improve our ability to help our clients, and most importantly make work-places safer. The quickest way to achieve quick improvements is to review worker environments and begin to understand how these situational factors affect decision making of managers, engineers and workers. Here it is important to highlight that we are not reviewing work-sites to simply identify hazards, but we are also looking at how the conditions are influencing employee thinking. We then use this information to make low-cost modifications in work environments that help managers and frontline workers to make better decisions, which not only improves safety, but also increase productivity. |
