MOVING TO THE 2ND GENERATION IN BEHAVIOUR-BASED SAFETY

摘要

Behaviour-Based Safety has moved from being a curiosity to becoming an established part of many companies' safety programmes. But what is the right perspective on it - is it a passing fad that will soon die away or, as we saw with HAZOP, is it a foundation methodology for the future? The answer depends on how we see the field of safety and what next steps we take. We discuss typical shortcomings in what some people call behaviour-based safety. We then discuss strategies for maintaining the strengths while addressing the weaknesses, before suggesting two next steps: rethink the old concepts, making the radical proposal that we should take away the emphasis from behaviours and focus instead on the working interface; and use behaviour-based safety methodology as a foundation for organisational change. The paper ends with a case study from a pharmaceutical company that is implementing most features of the '2nd generation' of behaviour-based safety.