Behavioural Safety
Programme
Tried and Tested
by Synthomer who have achieved significant measurable improvements in the first three years.
SAM is now evolving as he begins to work in other organisations. He has a brother called PAT. Both SAM and PAT are cartoon characters who are central to our approach. Their names are simple acronyms for Stop A Moment or Pause And Think. In both cases, the approach is identical. It requires everyone to carry out a simple, dynamic risk assessment prior to undertaking any task.
The risk assessment is not recorded, but is based on a set of questions, designed for each client and printed on the back of the cards.
Key benefits
- Simple to use yet highly effective
- Involves all employees
- Develops visible involvement of all managers
- Tackles key unsafe behaviours
- Develops key safe behaviours
We’ll work with you to
-
identify key safe and unsafe behaviours
- through discussion with managers, employees and safety representatives
- through discussion with managers, employees and safety representatives
- prepare a tailored set of SAM questions for use on your site
- which will address your concerns and follow your philosophy and management style
- develop a procedure to implement SAM on
your site
- specifying how SAM will be implemented and monitored
- specifying how SAM will be implemented and monitored
- run a workshop for selected managers
- to gain support for the SAM principles
- to gain support for the SAM principles
- brief all managers and supervisors in how to manage the SAM programme, ncluding
- the theory and practice of behavioural safety, including the Hale and Hale model of behavioural safety
- how to monitor behavioural safety using SAM
- how to approach employees and use SAM to discuss errors and violations
- how to design effective remedial action to address the root causes of human failure, using ABC analysis
- train all employees in behavioural safety and the use of SAM
- including how and why people make errors and violate rules and the use of SAM cards.
SAM was Five Years Old on 1 April 2008!
SAM has been at Synthomer for over five years
now.
Go to the Synthomer page to see how effective he's been
Behavioural Safety discussed at 2006 RoSPA Congress
Professor Richard Booth presented a paper on Behavioural Safety systems and their effictiveness at the 2006 RoSPA Congress in May. Read his paper on our website.
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