Indian corporates are one hundred percent safe as per their safety documents and records, but quite lacking in behavior which is the root-cause of all incidents. Hence their safety certifications and ...awards are questionable, as well as the certification agencies also need to contemplate over this. The major thrust of this article is to bring forth the brief reporting of Indian organizations that focused a shift towards an interdependent safety culture having implemented behavioral safety approach during 2019, so that behavioural safety aspects can be incorporated and emphasized by the corporates and concerned agencies.
This field action study in five Indian major organizations includes the reviews of behavior based safety (BBS) implementation, the road-map and action plan to implement BBS approach, and behavioral ...trends from a large gas company, two aluminum plants, a shipbuilding company, and an engineering plant. A mix of qualitative as well as quantitative data presented in this article would hopefully be useful for companies considering implementing BBS in order to achieve zero-accident/injury-free culture at their workplaces. A comparison of the five multinational organizations all over India revealed the behavioral trends on an average as follows: safe behaviors are 70%, unsafe behaviors as 30%, corrections of unsafe behavior as 67%, and interestingly safe behaviors went up to 90%, which means there is a 20% increase insafe behavior after corrections by all-category observers. The findings reveal that the unsafe/at-risk behaviors are rooted in organizational culture. Hence in order to achieve total safety culture, beyond behavioral safety implementation, the organizational behavior culture domains need attention of the corporate managements such as the quality of construction at project stage, the production target pressures, adequate resources (manpower and materials), sync in safety emphasis among all managers at different levels in the organization.
Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) 2.0 Kaila, Harbans Lal
Journal of psychosocial research,
01/2023, Volume:
18, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Most companies take safety implementation as a face-saving exercise to suit business perspective, as because, the long-term commitment for building safety culture is a bit harder for them. HSE ...professionals emphasised on integrating the safety systems with the positive safety culture. This article describes the need for behaviour based safety 2.0, defines BBS 2.0 interventions and makes us aware of its challenges and issues while integrating it with the organisational culture. BBS 1.0 and 2.0 is a journey from individual behaviours to organisational transformation. This manuscript briefs on how behaviour based safety (BBS) 2.0 is implemented qualitatively at organisational levels. BBS 1.0 and 2.0 both together transform the safety culture into a positive work culture. BBS 2.0 focuses more on organisational factors, rather individual behaviour. The basic difference between BBS 1.0 and 2.0 is clarified. BBS 2.0 does not replace BBS 1.0 but both are complementary to each other. The broad focus of BBS 1.0 is on building culture, while the focus of BBS 2.0 is on building organisational perspective.
Do corporate values and legacy reflect in safety culture among employees, is a critical question? Unless safety is practiced as a value by employees, it does not get sustained. It takes regulated ...efforts from top to down to inculcate safety as a value in an organization. To make it possible, eight companies participated in this research and shared their insights. Three cultural stages (pre-cultural intervention, cultural intervention, and post-intervention) are described that would facilitate linking safety culture to company values and heritage. For strengthening safety culture as corporate values, many ways are recommended such as reporting, policy, principle of safety first and production next, safety as a subject in academics, driving company's values in actions by implementing behavioural safety approach, make life first as a value on long term basis, connecting safety culture with individual's goals, include safety culture score in group sustainability targets, and linking organizational ethics with safety values.
How Do Company Directors Support Safety Culture Excellence is a deep question to explore the goal of incidents-free status? This article presents a qualitative framework on the issues related to the ...top/site management at large that are responsible for weak safety culture at the corporates as well as sites resulting in incidents and fatalities. Qualitative research in this paper makes a lot of sense in this regard. 204 industry professionals participated in the study to reflect on the top/site management issues and solutions. Almost 80% industry professionals observed a lack of management’s will to support in safety culture, which amounts to a lag in business sustainability. Top managements need guidance about interventions leading to safety culture transformation.
Indian safety culture suffers between the choices of compliance and compromise. The journey of safety cultural mindset assessments and management has not been smooth rather painful for the safety ...officers as well as the companies employing them, as the focus was not on the human behaviour that is the root cause of almost all incidents and accidents harming both the people and the business. This article is an update about how the behavioral based safety approach developed in Indian organizations, in brief, a description about the journey of BBS in India. The results of a few organizations are described that implemented BBS and found the transformation in order to achieve a level up towards their zero-harm culture. Corporate Insights would helporganizations attaining mission of zero-harm.
This research paper (based on case studies of 10 orgnaizations) depicts the success cases of behavioural safety cultural transformation in India and identifies how organisations are managing their ...manpower’s at-risk behaviours at worksites. An objective behind this work is to bring together the field-tested knowledge in the implementation of behavioural safety across sites in India. These cases from diverse organisations across industrial sectors such as oil, gas, petroleum, chemicals, automobile, construction, power, and aluminium across Indian locations, revealed the best practices, experiences and challenges during their BBS implementation journey.
This research paper (based on case studies of 10 organizations) depicts the success cases of behavioural safety cultural transformation in India and identifies how organizations are managing the ...at-risk behaviours at work sites. An objective behind this work is to bring together the field tested knowledge in the implementation of Behavioural Safety across sites in India. These cases from diverse organizations across industrial sectors such as oil, gas, petroleum, chemicals, automobile, construction, power, and aluminium across Indian locations, revealed the best experiences and challenges during their BBS implementation journey.
