Attend this informational seminar to learn more about a new approach to safety in the workplace, and the basics of introducing a BBS program. Pick up cutting-edge ideas and strategies that will improve quality, customer service, and productivity.

Safety in the workplace is getting more focus and impacted by regulations. OSHA implements new Injury reporting procedures January 2015.
• 4,405 workers were killed on the job in 2013 or more than 12 deaths every day.
• Nursing and Healthcare have seen a 14% increase in job related injuries in the last recorded year
• Manufacturing injuries are up 13%
• The construction industry sector recorded the most fatal work injuries, an increase of 8 percent

More and more we need to look at new approaches to achieving safe and healthy workplaces. We need to apply the learning from the many years of analyses of accidents and ill health because this will contribute to future prevention strategies and activities. Behavioral Based Safety (BBS) is an approach that we believe can be applied successfully; it is gaining more interest across industry sectors globally and has the great advantage of needing the involvement of the individual employee, in addition of course, to employer commitment.

A total safety culture is a culture in which:
a) individuals hold safety as a ‘value’ and not just a priority;
b) individuals take responsibility for the safety of their co-workers in addition to themselves; and
c) all level of employee are willing and able to act on their sense of responsibility – they can go ‘beyond the call of duty’

Adopting a BBS program can have significant changes in your operation. For example, following BBS intervention, a heavy industry reports the mean incidence rate reduced from an average of 4 per year prior to the BBS program, to an average of under 1 per year following introduction of the program (lower than the industry average). Additionally, over the years, participation in the program remained above 60% indicating a high level of employee engagement in safety.

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