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    This document provides guidance on improving health and safety behavior in the workplace. It discusses establishing a behavioral safety process that reinforces safe behaviors and reduces unsafe behaviors. Key aspects that should be focused on include management commitment and leadership in safety, ensuring staff are competent to perform their roles safely, and effective communication of safety policies and procedures through various methods such as notices, meetings, and training. Disciplinary procedures may also need to be enforced if employees violate health and safety rules.

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    This document provides guidance on improving health and safety behavior in the workplace. It discusses establishing a behavioral safety process that reinforces safe behaviors and reduces unsafe behaviors. Key aspects that should be focused on include management commitment and leadership in safety, ensuring staff are competent to perform their roles safely, and effective communication of safety policies and procedures through various methods such as notices, meetings, and training. Disciplinary procedures may also need to be enforced if employees violate health and safety rules.

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    This document provides guidance on improving health and safety behavior in the workplace. It discusses establishing a behavioral safety process that reinforces safe behaviors and reduces unsafe behaviors. Key aspects that should be focused on include management commitment and leadership in safety, ensuring staff are competent to perform their roles safely, and effective communication of safety policies and procedures through various methods such as notices, meetings, and training. Disciplinary procedures may also need to be enforced if employees violate health and safety rules.

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    The key takeaways are the importance of management commitment and leadership, competent staff, effective communication, and worker involvement in health and safety.

    The different methods of communicating health and safety information are verbal communication, written communication, and graphic communication.

    The different ways of broadcasting health and safety information include safety notices, tool box talks, memos and emails, worker handbooks, posters and videos.

    Improving Health and Safety Behavior

    There is some guidance to help you improve health and safety behavior at workplace. A behavioral safety process
    that identifies and reinforces safe behavior and reduces unsafe behavior.
    Behavioral safety processes aren’t a ’quick fix’ and it’s important not to overlook fundamental elements. You
    should begin by concentrating on policies and systems – assessing and improving management and operational
    factors, training, design and so on.
    Management Commitment & Leadership
    The safety culture of an organization can only be improved if a clear commitment
    has been made by management, with visible leadership. An important factor in
    demonstrating management commitment is visible leadership. If management are
    never seen taking an active interest in safety issues, then there will be an
    assumption that they are not interested. Individual managers must show their
    commitment to health and safety to their staff as this creates the local safety
    culture.

    Visible commitment can be demonstrated by:


     Behaving safely
     Involvement in the day-to-day management of health and safety e.g. by attending safety meetings
     Taking part in safety tours or audits
     Promoting changes to improve health and safety
     Enforcing the company safety rules
     Motivations & Rewards Program
    Competent Staff:
    A competent person is a person who has
     Sufficient training, knowledge, experience and other abilities or skills to be
    able to carry out their works safely and without risk to health.
     Competent workforce to carry out the tasks that they have been allocated.
    It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that workers are competent to
    carry out the tasks that they have been allocated. The more competent the workers,
    the better able they will be to do their job safely. Manager should also be competent.
    This means that all mangers should have an understanding of the health and safety implications
    of the decisions they make on a day-to-day basis.
    Effective Communication:
    There are three principal delivery media for communicating information, verbal, written and graphic.
    1-Verbal Communication:
    Communication using the spoken word, e.g. face-to-face conversation, meetings, interviews, training sessions, by
    telephone or over a public announcement (PA) system.
    This is easiest and most commonly used form of communication but there are various weakness associated with
    this method. If verbal communication is to be used to convey safety-critical
    information to workers these weaknesses must be overcome through
    following steps
    - Communication must be direct
    - Allows for exchange of views
    - Allows for feedback to be given
    - Allows for checking of understanding
    2-Written Communication:
    Communication using the written word, e.g. report, memo, e-mail, notice, company handbook, policy document,
    operating instructions, risk assessment, minutes of meetings etc. The site should maintain all written records.
    3-Graphic Communication:
    Communication using pictures, symbols or pictograms e.g. safety signs, such as a fire exit sign, hazard warning
    symbols such as skull and crossbones found on the label of a toxic chemical, or photographs, such as of a machine
    showing a guard being used correctly in the operating instructions for the machine. Evacuation plans
    Benefits of graphic communications are
    - Eye-catching
    - Visual
    - Quick to interpret
    - No language barrier
    - Jargon-free
    - Conveys a message to wide audience
    Broadcasting Methods:
    There are various ways of broadcasting health and safety information using the three media we discussed above.
    Each of these broadcasting techniques has its own strengths and limitations and so usually a mix of some or all of
    these techniques is used to ensure that essential messages are transmitted and correctly understood by all staff.
    • Notice Boards
    Should be eye-catching and located in areas used by all workers,
    e.g. rest rooms or central corridors, notices should be current,
    relevant and tidily displayed. Cluttered, out-of-date, irrelevant
    notices obscure the messages being conveyed. Displaying a notice
    does not mean that it will be read. Typical contents might include the
    safety policy, employer’s liability insurance certificate, risk assessment
    & emergency procedures; identify of safety representatives and first-aiders,
    minutes of safety committee meetings, accident statistics etc.
    • Posters and videos
    Used to provide safety information, drawing attention to particular issues and supporting the safety culture.
    Benefits of posters and videos
    - Eye-catching and generate interest
    - avoid language barriers
    - Low cost
    - Can be reinforce key messages
    • Toolbox talks: Short, practical safety briefing carried out routinely in the workplace. They can be useful for
    generating awareness and discussion on safety precautions however the site should ensure the topic are
    relevant to the workplace.
    • Memos and e-mails: written notification used to provide specific information about a single issue, such as
    updating procedures, changes in process and management infrastructures etc.
    • Worker handbooks: it is used to set out the company’s H&S policy. The site should provide copy on joining
    the organization. This is key documents containing rules, operating procedures, emergency arrangement
    etc.

    • Co-operation and Consultation: A positive safety culture can only be created and implemented with
    worker’s cooperation and consultation. If workers feel that they are being dictated to then they will feel
    little ownership of health and safety. The most effective way to avoid this negativity and to actively
    encourage workers interest and ownership is to involve workers in the decision-making process, which is
    best achieved through worker consultations. There are several methods can be used for consultations with
    workers. For instance, Direct consultation where the employer talk director to each worker and resolves
    issue as they occur. Worker Representatives: A health and safety committee is established, made up of key
    management personnel and workers representatives. They meet regularly to discuss H&S matters and
    resolve issues.

    • Trainings:
    In the context of health and safety, training can be considered as the planned, formal process of acquiring
    and practicing knowledge and skills in a relatively safe environment. Employers have responsibility to train
    their staff to carry out their jobs in a safe manner. Training is a key component of competence. Training has
    dramatic effect on safety-related behavior.
    Once the workers have been properly trained they will understand;
    - The hazards and risks inherent in their work
    - The correct rules and precautions to apply
    - Foreseeable emergencies and the action to take, should these events occur
    - Use of PPE’s
    The site should provide training opportunities in following scenarios
    - New employees – induction trainings
    - Job change
    - Process change
    - New technology
    - New legislation
    It is important to keep records of trainings, not only to records who has been trained but also to update an show
    progress against the training plan. After providing the trainings, the site should evaluate the effectiveness of the
    trainings and maintain the records accordingly.
    Disciplinary procedure:
    Occasionally, it may be necessary to use disciplinary procedures to enforce the health and safety rules, e.g. in the
    event that and employee endangers their safety or the safety of others. In these circumstances the employer
    would be negligent in ignoring such behavior and must act to ensure that it is not repeated.
    Which of these situations might result in disciplinary action?
    • A supervisor fails to follow a procedure and instructs their shift to cut corners in order to save time
    • A worker drives a forklift truck recklessly and collides with racking, causing damage.
    • A supervisor fails to isolate a machine before working on it (against their training), as the job was
    only of short duration.
    • A worker climb over a locked machine guards to carry out a quality checks.
    • An office employee repeatedly enters the factory area without the required PPE despite being told
    several times of the requirements
    The answer is clearly that these could all potentially result in disciplinary action, though the level of action would
    depend upon each individual situation. It is common for minor breaches of health and safety procedures to be
    dealt with informally through discussion and coaching.

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