IEH Training

Behavioural Safety Management

Date: 18 – 20 June 2024
Duration: 24 hours
Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm

Skills Framework for Workplace Safety and Health
Technical Skills & Competencies (TSC) Reference Document
Level 5 (WPH-WSH-5072-1.1)

Course Overview
Behavioural Safety Management is an approach used to address the link between the behaviour of the workforce and workplace accidents. It is also known as Behaviour-based safety. This is an areas that is increasingly studied in WSH to develop better safety cultures in organisations.

The field focuses on reducing hazards, risks, and incidents by observing the behaviour of a person and determining what follows when this behaviour occurs. It involves designing parameters to examine, review and implement programs to mitigate these behaviours.

Course Learning Outcome

  • To establish Behavioural Safety Programme (BSP) design parameters and set up BSP Steering and Working Committees to implement according to the BSP specifications
  • To evaluate BSP performance outcomes to rectify performance gaps

Learning Units

  1. Characteristics of behavioural safety versus traditional safety
  2. Behavioural Safety Programme (BSP) design parameters
  3. Organisational readiness study methodologies
  4. Types of at-risk and critical behaviours, including critical health symptoms that cause accidents and incidents at the workplace
  5. Modes and frequency of data collection
  6. Roles and responsibilities of BSP Working and Steering Committees
  7. Training for BSP Working and Steering Committees
  8. Relevant stakeholders in BSP implementation
  9. Types of data collected for analyses during BSP
  10. Types of BSP review techniques and tools
  11. Types of BSP performance gaps
  12. Types of corrective and preventive actions to rectify BSP performance gaps

Continual Professional Development
SDU 7 Points

Certificate
This is an Institute of Ergonomics and Hygiene (IEH) accredited course. A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for each person attending the course and demonstrating that they have understood the course content.