Behavior Based Safety Training

Good health and safety practice most of the time relies on the perfect behavior of the individuals. Most safety professionals believe that the majority of accidents in the workplace are caused by carelessness and unsafe behaviors of employers and employees. According to the HSE website, ‘up to 80% of accidents may be attributed, at least in part, to the actions or omissions of people.

We all know that people are involved throughout the life cycle of an organization from design through to operation, maintenance, management, and demolition.

Many accidents are blamed on the actions or omissions of a worker/person who was directly involved in operational or maintenance work’. Behavior-based safety is based on complete trust and cooperation between the workers and leaders. It provides long-term solutions to eliminate hazards and risks. It also provides a life-saving approach to maintaining a safety culture in the workplace.

Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) Training can play an important part in reducing accidents and ill health by reducing unsafe behaviors and promoting safe behaviors in the workplace by the workforce. The main purpose of IHSM Behavior-Based Safety Training is to change workers’ mindsets so that they don’t engage in risky activity without proper protection.

Training Objectives 

The objectives of this training is to develop the understanding of the participants to differentiate between safe and unsafe behavior in the workplace. It promote safe behavior, develop the ability to identify and eliminate the hazards and prevent job related injuries and ill health. This training is also an essential element for developing a positive health and safety culture in the workplace. 

Learning Outcomes

There are several positive ‘value-added’ outcomes of Behavior-Based Safety Training to the participants, such as:

• Develop ability to recognize hazards and evaluate risk
• Understand the basic principles of Behavior Based Safety.
• Know the importance of safe behavior in the workplace
• Know to the consequences of unsafe acts and unsafe behaviors.
• Be familiar with the roles and responsibilities of management and individuals.
• Improved verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Increased reporting of defects, accidents, near misses, etc.
• Develop ability to recognize hazards and evaluate risk
• Increase levels of safe behaviors
• Reduced numbers of incidents, property damage, and near-misses
• Reduced incident costs by minimizing job-related incidents