Motivating Your Workforce to
Behave Safely
A training pack for Dutyholders, Managers and Supervisors
Session 1
Objectives
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To understand the key risk taking
behaviours that lead to the top ten fatalities
in construction.
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To show you that the causes of fatalities
are often minor.
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To remind you that if you do not die you
may end up with a health condition or
disability that may stop you from working.
Exercise 1
What do you think are the
main causes of fatalities on
construction sites?
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Top 10 Identified Causes of
Fatalities
- Fall from a ladder- Fall through a fragile roof covering
- During lifting operations
- Being struck by moving plant
- Falls from scaffolds
- Fall down an internal void
- Asphyxiation by fumes
- Crushed by falling excavation
- Trapped and crushed by MEWP
Exercise 2
1. What are the behaviours or actions
that would have happened just before
this fatality occurred?
2. Why might this have happened?
(Think about the management, policy,
procedure, worker and team).
Exercise 3
1.
What could you, as a front line
operative, do differently to avoid that
fatality from occurring?
2.
What do you think management and
the organisation could have in place,
or do differently, to prevent that fatality
occurring?
Session 2
Objective
To identify common risk
scenarios.
Using our ABC
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When we want to investigate the things that lead to safe
or unsafe behaviour we sometimes use ‘ABC analysis’.
It helps us look at those behaviours and work out whether
they are likely to happen again.
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We can use this information to reduce or remove the
things that will lead to unsafe behaviour and reduce or
remove the things that keep making people behave
unsafely.
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We can also use this information to do more of the things
that help people work more safely and to encourage them
to keep on doing these.
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Okay, so let’s break the ABC down a bit more!
ABC
Activators
Behaviours
Consequences
Example of ABC Chart:
Activators(A)
(What factors lead to
risky behaviour?)
Fellow workers
do not wear
hearing
protection.
Knowledge that
hearing
protection is
supplied.
Behaviours(B)
(Risk taking or
protective
behaviours).
Not wearing
hearing
protection.
Consequences
(C)
(What factors or
events happen as a
result of the
behaviour?)
Take risks like
your
workmates.
Wearing the
Risk of
right PPE for the damaging
task.
hearing.
Think about the situations where
you’ve had an accident or where
you escaped a serious incident.
Five examples of poor safety behaviours:
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Not wearing RPE/face mask when kerb
cutting (using vibratory machinery) or
block cutting. Silicosis risk.
Using gas heaters/generators in enclosed
spaces without adequate ventilation.
Plant drive walking in front of an
excavator while the plant was moving.
Storing paving slabs off site that then
kills a young child clambering over the
slabs.
Raising a tipper lorry without checking
for overhead power lines.
Things to Remember!
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There are a variety of consequences to poor
safety behaviour. Some take longer to show
themselves (e.g. occupational asthma, poor
hearing).
This is not just about getting killed. You could
be left with a disability or poor health.
Prevention is straightforward.
Everyone is responsible for the health, safety
and welfare of workers in this company; this
includes you, your workmates, supervisor and
manager.
Take Control
SLAM
…and if it is not safe…
STOP!
Session 3
Objectives:
To think about the consequences of engaging
in poor safety behaviours.
To understand that even when things appear
to be right not everything will have been
anticipated, meaning that accidents can
happen.
“There’s Bob not
wearing hearing
protection again.”
What happens next?
Scenario 2
“I need to paint at the
top there. I can’t
reach! I know… I’ll
get a ladder…that
should help.”
Scenario 3
Someone repairing a
leaking roof light on a
fragile roof using a
Youngman’s board (60c,
wide board, lightweight
1.5-2m board)…
What happens next?
Someone is about to go down a 2 metre
excavation next to this JCB in operation…
What happens next?
Session 4
Objective
Lets recap on the discussions that
have taken place and remind
ourselves of the key messages from
the sessions….
Key Messages
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The simplest of things can cause fatalities.
Accidents happen for a variety of reasons.
Accidents can happen as a result of
something someone else has done earlier.
Disability and death can happen in the
present as well as in the future.
Prevention is straightforward.
Everyone has a shared responsibility.
There are ways of overcoming barriers.
Workers have the right to STOP (SLAM).
Thank you for taking part
Now go put this into practice!