Behavioural Safety and Major Accident Hazards: Magic Bullet or Shot in the Dark?

摘要: In recent years there has been an increase in the use of behaviour modification (BMod) approaches to safety. These interventions generally involve observation and assessment certain behaviours, usually those front-line personnel. The rationale behind behavioural safety is that accidents are caused by unsafe behaviours. based on behaviourist theories, which can be summarized ‘ strongly reinforced will maintained’. There reports some successes with a range environments, including process industries. Such have number advantages addition reducing incidents, increased communication about safety, management visibility employee engagement. However, these programmes tend focus intuitive issues personal health ignoring low probability/high consequence risks. author proposes causes may differ precursors major therefore draw attention away from Furthermore, tendency individuals fail address behaviour, thus excluding activities significant impact performance. This paper discusses usefulness approaches, particularly managing accident hazards, provides guidance for companies considering embarking such programme.