Behaviour Based Safety

Safety Management

BEHAVIOUR BASED SAFETY

According to theory of  MASLOW there are needs for every individual they are categorized into following:

1.     Physiological needs (hunger or thirst)

2.     Safety needs

3.     Social needs

4.     Esteem (particularly self esteem)

5.     Self actualization (breaking their life to know the reality)

Human behavior:

1.      It is complex and not fully predictable

2.     Early theorist believed that behavior had biological origins.

Performance behavior factors

Factors	Examples
1.     Situational Characteristics	Temperature, Noise
2.     Psychological stress	Heavy task load, monotonous
3.     Task and equipment characteristics	Human-machine interface, perception requirements
4.     Physiological stress	Fatigue, hunger, thirst
5.     Job instructions	Verbal / written communication work methods
6.     Individual factors	Motivation, attitude, previous trainings
7.     Some other factors	Biochemistry, health, relationship with other personal desires and goals.

Motivation:

Set of processes that move set if people to achieve a goal. Motivation is the process if attempting to influence to do your will though a possibility of reward.

Importance of motivation:

1.     Motivation increases productivity and safety which improves the efficiency of the operators and motivation can be achieved by fulfilling the needs.

2.     Create a favorable work environment for achieving the organization goals.

3.     It can be achieved by regulating the behavior of workers and by provision of safety equipments and gadgets, ppe needed for the safety and by establishing confidence in the mind of workers that safety and security are taken care by the management.

4.     Satisfaction creates confidence.

5.     Motivation ensures good industrial relations they feel good about management

6.     Motivation reduces absenteeism.

7.     It increases turnover and increases concentration of workers.

8.     Motivational techniques improved retention (not only retain the employees but also attracting the outside people).

9.     Good motivation reduces the restness of change.

10.            Motivation needs to direct goal oriented ways.

Organizational practices to motivate the workers:

1.     Organization should have systems to reward people who work safely.

2.     Allow workers to take up pride.

3.     Assigning responsibilities.

4.     Methods of increasing wages.

5.     Including in insurance or any other benefits.

6.     Participating in management discussions meetings

7.     Safety competition

8.     According to maslow hierarchy safety needs are important.

Safety needs:

Ø Organization helps to satisfy employee’s safety needs by providing facilities devices and PPE.

Ø Worker should be trained for safe work in shop floor.

Ø They should be thought about sufferings and losses about accidents and injury.

Communication inside the plant:

Communication is the process of conveying messages for the information of the people.

Process of transmitting ideas or thoughts from one person to another for the purpose of creating understanding.

Types of communication:

1.     Personal or individual meeting

2.     Group meeting

3.     Complaint procedure

4.     Counseling

5.     Through labor unions

6.     Company periodicals (bulletins)

7.     Notice boards

8.     Information racks

9.     Pay covers

10.                        Annual reports

11.                        Employee handbook

Symbols of communication:

1.     Words

2.     Actions

3.     Pictures

4.     Numbers

Every communication must have a sender and a receiver.