Humanology Based Safety: Doing Better, Smarter, Safer 🔗

Introduction

Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) is an approach that we believe can be applied successfully; it is gaining more interest across industry sectors globally and has the great advantage of needing the involvement of the individual employee, also of course, to employer commitment. This fails to take account of the many factors that influence and reinforce learning and behaviours. BBS addresses these factors. It is closely linked to company culture and values and, most importantly, when it works, it is an excellent tool to improve safety performance in the workplace. Various approaches have had reasonable success in reducing unsafe behaviours in the workplace. Some involve penalties; others involve surveillance; others involve guidance, codes and procedures to follow; others still are supportive and training-oriented.