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• About Behavioral Safety
• Why Behavioral Safety?
• Course Outline
• Who Should Attend?
• What you’ll take away from this course
• About the Trainer
• Testimonials from Attendees

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2-Day Practical Workshop in Integrating Behavioral Safety into Health and Safety Management System – Static and Dynamic Settings

About Behavioral Safety

Many people misunderstood that behavioral safety is a system that can replace the current approach of the occupational health and safety management system. This is not the case. In fact, organizations need to put in place a health and safety management system and concurrently applies behavioral safety.

The rationale of arriving behavioral safety program can be extracted in the definition of safety culture. UK Health and Safety Commission (1993) defined safety culture as ’the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organization's health and safety management’.

BSD Professionals, David Tan (2010) defined positive safety culture as ‘an assemble of individuals Which made up of groups’ positive safety values, beliefs, attitudes, competencies and safe patterns of behavior that committed in controlling a healthy and safe workplace using a practicable health and safety management system that can reduce the workplace’s risk to as safe as reasonably practicable. These are demonstrated by top management empowering safety and health down to the last worker in the organization with open communications, open consultations, consistent compliances and co-operations’.

These definitions are relatively similar as they characterized into mutual values, beliefs, attitudes, patterns of behavior and it focused on what was described in a task-force based safety culture only if the organization is ‘positive’ towards health and safety.

Taking the definition of the positive safety culture model (BSD Professionals, David Tan, 2010), behavioral safety program is a systematic approach to maintain and support safe patterns of behavior at work whilst reinforcing changes to unsafe individuals/ group behaviors.

While all occupational safety programs must be initialed by top management, behavioral safety program focuses more on the shop floor personnel. This, however does not mean that top management can sit in their offices and leave the workers to manage safety at work. The top has to make reasonable decisions by changing the environment to support safe behaviors.

Why Behavioral Safety?

Most accidents are caused by unsafe practices. Despite the health and safety management system, safe work procedures, engineering controls and permit-to-work system, controlling unsafe practices can be difficult. The reason for this is that unsafe practices involve the Human Mindsets about hazard(s), that is, they occur as a result of people’s attitudes and behaviors towards occupational safety.

This course offers a way to reduce the incidence of unsafe practices by modifying people’s behaviors, improving their attitudes towards a conscious culture, integrate behavioral safety program into health and safety management system.

Course Outline

Day 1

Rationale of arriving behavioral safety program

The purpose of this module is to set a mission for the behavioral safety program and understand the duties of individuals with regards to workplace safety legal framework.

Principles of Unsafe Acts

This module discussed the principles of unsafe acts and balancing negative and positive behavior in the construction industries.

Develop Safety Behavior Observation Checklist

This module focuses on the methodology of developing an observation checklist.

Communication and Feedback

One of the most powerful ways to identify unsafe acts at a workplace is to gather feedback. This module is to discuss on the various effective communication skills and feedback.

DAY 2

Observation and Intervention of Unsafe Acts

This module provides a guide on how to conduct behavioral safety observation. It also uses ABC analysis tool to analyze why workers behave the way they behaved at a workplace and applies the tool to change unsafe acts to safe acts.

Notwithstanding the ABC tools, job safety analysis method shall also be used for the intervention of unsafe acts to be incorporated in the safety behavior observation checklists.

Measure the Success of Safety Behavior Observation

This module analyze the data collected from safety behavior observation

Behavioral Safety Implementation Model

This module allows the participants to propose a behavioral safety implementation model for static and dynamic settings.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is recommended for safety practitioners, directors, professionals, health and safety advisors/ officers, engineers, managers, executive, managing directors and other persons with health and safety responsibilities (e.g. safety representatives).

This training should interest those who would like to learn about behavioral safety approaches in improving workplace culture and performance. While these modules are designed for safety people occupying managerial/ supervisor roles, or roles with substantial organizational responsibilities, they are also relevant for businesses operations and self-employed people

What you’ll take away from this course

• Get the latest philosophy and practical approach of behavioral safety and apply to your existing health and safety management system.
• Real case studies including real life videos of how David Tan implemented the success of behavioral safety implementation.
• Specialized in behavioral safety implementation and consulting experience on analysing safety culture, safety audits, health and safety management systems, accident investigations, risk management.
• Certificate of Participation

About the Trainer

David Tan Kok Pheng is a well-known behavioral safety practitioner, a safety culture analyst and a workplace safety and health officer with over many years worldwide experience.

During the course of his work, he finds behavioral safety an interesting subject and has then developed and implemented behavioral safety in many sites. He truly believes that by developing and implementing behavioral safety in due diligent, companies would definitely reduce the number of incidents.

This proactive safety framework approach has arguably managed with proven records to introduce a philosophy of prevention, rather than compensation, as a basis for dealing with risk at work. Under his guidance, many of these companies achieved a great reduction in incident rates.

Master Degree in Science (Environment Health and Safety) / Bachelor Degree in Science Health and Safety / The Colleague of Teachers, Incorporated by Royal Charter 1849 & Supplemental Charter 1998, DEMS Training and Business Continuity Training / Advanced Certificate In Training & Assessment

Accredited trainer for Risk Management Course / Accredited trainer for Workplace Safety and Health Management System course / Approved Risk Management Consultant

Registered Workplace Safety and Health Officer / Environmental Control Officer / Fire Safety Manager

Testimonials from Attendees

• Enjoyable and useful presentation (Participant from UK)
• David was amusing and very enthusiastic (Participant from UK)
• We recognize some aspects already, but we can improve by extending and formalizing your approach (Participant from UK)
• Very interesting concept (Participant from UK)
• A first class presentation on this topic (Participant from UK)
• Very interesting course. Lot of lessons learnt and tools to take back from it (Participant from Japan)
• An open eye on how to perform safety culture analysis and the approach in behavioral safety is very practical (Participant from Germany)
• Its good and refreshing hearing the BBS presentation from David’s perspectives (Participant from Singapore)
• Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us during the two days behavioral safety workshop (Participant from Philippines)
• Hope everything is fine with you and you are happily exploring the world of pattern of behavior. Thanks for the very enriching workshop. (Participant from Singapore)