Thames Water
Behavioural Safety
Briefing
1½ hour
Logistics and Safety in the Room
 This briefing will last 1½ hours
 Phones off
 All conversations are confidential, take the behavioural
safety message away but not the names, otherwise it
becomes story telling
 One conversation at a time
 Be in the room
 In the event of a fire ………
Introductions
Find your ‘other half’ …….
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Enable people to
make safe choices
Behaviour
+ Culture
Processes and systems
New
standards
Engineering / Equipment
Major push for
compliance
Improving SAFETY
Where do we need to Focus?
Time
HSE Vision
Our vision is to send everyone (who works for us and with us)
home safer and healthier than when they came to work,
having a positive effect on both their working and home lives,
and ensuring the safety of everyone else who may be affected
by our work.
We will achieve this through, being one team with one vision,
enabling transformational change of behaviours to a culture of
Zero Harm
(AMP 5 Leadership Team)
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Leadership Team
 To provide clear and visible leadership that
challenges and improves health &safety
performance.
 To influence working practices, systems and
behaviours so as to make a significant improvement
to heath & safety performance
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Output from the Leadership Team
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Thames Water Commitment to Safety
A message from our COO – Steve Shine
The Injury Pyramid
1 Fatality
There is a huge
difference between
the consequences
of an unsafe act
and of a fatality and
in our response to
them
400 Reportable Injuries
20,000 First Aid
240,000 Near Misses
2 million Unsafe Actions – At Risk
Behaviour and Unsafe Conditions
Kieron Deeney
It will never happen to me
4 Key Obstacles
1.
Observing my colleagues and myself “asleep at the
wheel” or preoccupied
2.
Speaking up when I see someone at-risk
3.
Being open to change when someone speaks to me
4.
Changing our perceptions
Relationship of Competency to Risk
“Scared
Stiff”
Knowledge & Skills
Perceived Risk
“Concerned and
Competent”
“Asleep at
the Wheel”
Low
Experience
4 Key Obstacles
1.
Observing my colleagues and myself “asleep at the
wheel” or preoccupied
2.
Speaking up when I see someone at-risk
3.
Being open to change when someone speaks to me
4.
Changing our perceptions
Our Challenge – Changing
Perceptions
Perception
Action
Results
The way we look at things drives our actions
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Completion
Thank you for your participation and contribution
Let’s all get home safely. Every day.