Behavioral Safety (iBe-Safe)

The best way to improve your safety and health programme is to find out, right now, what’s working and what isn’t. Who knows better (and cares more) than the people whose jobs and maybe lives depend on it?

ACCIDENTS AND RISK TAKING
SAFETY CULTURE
iBe-Safe PRINCIPLES
iBe-Safe PROCESSES
OBJECTIVES OF THE BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY PROCESS
iBe-Safe BENEFITS
OTHER SERVICES IN BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY

iSTEC Safety has three effective employees’ surveys. Use them to give yourself an overall view of your programme and as the basis for reports to senior management. Each survey can be tailored to your organisations specific needs, using custom and standard questions. The survey will present your core assessment issues in a clear, orderly, and comprehensive manner. 

It’s easy for people to record their real feelings about your current situation because the process is completely confidential. The result is a clear picture of your safety programme from your consumer’s point of view. You can use this analysis as an early warning system and as basis for management decisions. 

There’s another plus: one of the biggest morale boosters you can give your employees is the opportunity to voice their thoughts and feelings. The benefit to you comes from increased productivity and loyalty. 

iSTEC Safety employee surveys give you value. Remember that targeted improvements based on accurate facts save you time and money. And when you compare the cost of administering a survey to the per diem rates of consultants, the dollar/rand saved really adds up.

ACCIDENTS AND RISK TAKING 
More than 80% of accidents or incidents can be linked to risk-taking by employees. However, most of the so-called risk-taking is a result of failure in management systems, work practices or equipment design, beyond employees control. Accidents can be described as the result of “normal people reacting normally to abnormal work environments”.

SAFETY CULTURE
The “failures” of systems or controls are also produced by the type of safety culture that exists - namely the values, beliefs and perceptions of employees and managers. It is the most original source of safety problems. Accidents are produced by the culture, management system and work practices. However, our incident and accident analyses seldom track down these “original” causes.

iBe-Safe PRINCIPLES
iBe-Safe is based on the principle of management effectiveness: safety should be managed in the same way as quality, productivity or improvement – through the direction and control of management. Through iBe-Safe , management takes the first logical step: Where are we? Safety performance/non-performance is then targeted, planned, systemised and measured. This is done at all levels of the organisation: strategically, tactically and operationally. Above all, it involves all employees effectively and rewards their contribution and participation.

iBe- Safe PROCESSES

1. iB-Safe provides strategies, systems and tools to manage safety at all levels: 
2. iB-Safe Survey profiles the safety culture in the organisation. 
3. iSafty reviews safety systems and management practices. 
4. iBe-Safe Hazard Hunts for HIRAC identifies and reduces the risk-taking work practices and hazards in work places. 
5. IB-Safe Systems integrates safety and production systems and develops safety awareness.

OBJECTIVES OF BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY PROCESS
The objectives of Be-Safe  are:

• To introduce effective management of human factors in safety 
• To identify and eliminate risk-taking of employees 
• To implement strategies and actions for the management of risk 
• To integrate risk and production management

iBe-Safe BENEFITS

• Improvement in safety and efficiencies 
• Accurate profiles of safety attitudes 
• Meaningful worker involvement 
• A ‘no-paper’ safety approach 
• Team work and synergy on safety 
• Continuous improvement in behavior based safety

OTHER SERVICES IN BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY

• Fatality Prevention The Human Factor 
• Team Performance Analysis 
• Risk Taking Behavior Models 
• Human Error Analysis 
• Accident And Incident Analysis Investigation 
• Fatal Risk Management People Requirement Competence