Behavioural Safety Programme
Underpinning Behavioural Safety for Sustained Change
Done well, a behavioural safety programme can bring significant wins for your organisation, improving safety and business performance. Done badly, it can backfire and produce resistance and recidivism.
It’s our job to make sure your organisation avoids the latter.
How do we do it? We look at the underlying drivers of behaviour and not just the behaviours themselves. This wider organisational development approach to behavioural safety is what we call Cultural Safety®. It’s the way we ‘do’ behavioural safety at OCAID.
Done Behavioural Safety. What’s Next?
OCAID has a team of specialists with many years’ experience implementing Behavioural Safety Programmes around the world. What we’ve learnt over the years is that a focus on behaviour in isolation is not effective in producing sustained safety improvement.
So you’re not alone if you’ve had mixed success in implementing a behavioural safety programme – particularly when it comes to maintaining the continuous, sustained safety improvement required by ISO45000.
As Peter Drucker once famously said, culture eats strategy for breakfast. That doesn’t mean that strategy isn’t required, but it does mean that without the right culture, you’re likely to struggle to embed your strategy into the fabric of the organisation.
The Cultural Safety® Journey is our proven three-step culture change programme, incorporating the behavioural aspects of safety as a core element, but looking deeper into how the other elements of an organisation’s culture interact with and affect safety performance. It leverages the investment you’ve already made in behavioural safety, but looks beyond behaviours to create an integrated system and environment; one that systematically promotes safety, optimises success and embeds improvements.
ALFA LAVAL
60% reduction in accidents within a year
Alfa Laval deals in the production of specialized products and solutions for heavy industry worldwide.
The accident rate in some countries was too high and not reducing. RyderMarsh OCAID consultants were invited to work with the organization on a programme to improve the HSE culture. The programme started in India, then the worst performing country in terms of LTI’s. The result?
Alfa Laval has seen a marked improvement in awareness of hazards, challenging culture and near-miss reporting. Resulting in a 60% reduction in LTI’s since implementing the programme. Alfa Laval engaged RyderMarsh OCAID to implement the next phase in China.
Sanjay Marne, Manager HSE and ISO Operations, Alfa Laval
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Related Services
We believe that behavioural safety is best undertaken as a complete programme. But we’re pragmatic folk and understand that sometimes the reality on the ground means that for now, you require just one part of the jigsaw. We’re happy to offer the following parts of our Cultural Safety® Programme as stand-alone services: