Over the last 10 years, there has been considerable interest in the improvements attainable to an organisation's health and safety performance, due to the adoption of an effective behavioural safety and health programme.
Research supports that behavioural safety techniques improve health and safety risk control by promoting behaviours that enhance health and safety.
Behaviour turns an organisation's systems and procedures, into reality.
This section uses references taken from the HSE publication:
Strategies to promote safe behaviour as part of a health and safety management system
Another useful reference is:
www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/comah/behaviouralintor.htm
For successful behavioural change, the organisation must be prepared for such a change, for example, there must be a culture of management commitment towards health and safety. Equally, it is important that there is trust and good communication between management, supervisors and employees.
Behavioural safety initiatives fail most often due to a lack of management commitment to the programme. So it is with BACK-TRACK. It is vital that there is support from Supervisors and that there is obvious management commitment to the system.