Behavioural Based Safety Awareness

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
23 Nov 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register

Behavioural Based Safety Awareness

Introduction

The program looks in depth at the factors that impact on human failure:

  • Organizational aspects that influence human failure
  • Task factors that will increase or decrease human failure

Objectives

    Participants attending the program will:

    • Understand what behavior is?
    • Know why people are prepared to take unnecessary risk
    • Be able to observe and assess behavior at work
    • Understand what is the behavior is?
    • Know how to change at-risk behavior (latent and active).
    • Know how to introduce these tools into their organization
    • How to improve risk perception within the organization
    • Know the seven main categories of human failure
    • Know what is a safety culture and how can it be measured and improved;
    • Know how to conduct a Safety Culture survey and develop action plans & create continuous improvement

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

  • Line managers at all levels and disciplines in organisation
  • HSE Advisors

Course Outline

Day 1: Developing health & Safety management systems to incorporate a behavioral approach

  • Course Introduction: delegate and tutor introductions; Course objectives
  • Historical overview of health and safety performance
  • Introduction to HSE Management Systems (Plan, Do, Measure and learn)
  • Task-based risk assessment and why it doesn’t always work
  • Introduction to human error
  • The 7 different types of human error
  • Overview of Task, organization and Individual aspects that influence human factors
  • Case study and syndicate exercise: Challenger & Columbia disasters
  • Report back and review of day 1 

Day 2: Tasks Aspects that Influence Human Factors

  • An in-depth look at the task aspects that influence human factors
  • What shapes and models perception
  • A theoretical model of perception at work
  • Case studies Kings Cross sub-way fire & Bradford City football club fire
  • Analytical techniques for assessing risk perception
  • Syndicate exercise
  • Report back and review of day 2 

Day 3: Organizational Aspects that Influence Human Factors

  • Roles and accountabilities
  • The effect of group pressure on individuals
  • Organizational pressure (real and perceived)
  • Case study and analysis
  • Syndicate exercise (Lessons from Langford compared with Lessons from Flixbourough)
  • Changing styles for changing behavior
  • Review of day 3

Day 4: Individual Aspects that Influence Human Factors

  • Introduction to behavioral observations
  • Observation systems
  • Syndicate exercise Zebrine sea disaster and Channel Tunnel rail incident;
  • Introduction to culture in the workplace
  • Measuring HSE culture (Triangulation using Survey, Interviews and direct observation and feedback)
  • Safety Culture Maturity Model
  • Action planning for improving culture
  • Review of day 4

DAY 5: Accident Analysis Case Study

  • Investigate an incident in the light of Task, Organization and Individual aspects of Human factors
  • Review Health and safety management systems in the light of human factors
  • Case Study: Piper Alpha offshore disaster working in small groups on accident analysis
  • Preparation of action plans, planning and implementing
  • Report back and discussion
  • Personal action plans, program review and the way ahead
  • Defining the System Scope

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