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A Study On Behavior Based Safety In Refinery

Authors: Maneksha Mohan M, Dr. Nehal Anwar Siddiqui

Ref: Int J OHSFE-Allied Sci./Vol. 6/Issue 1/Oct-Dec,2015/007-013.

Abstract:

This project is a perception survey of impact of behavior-based safety (BBS) on accident prevention in the construction project. Industry is becoming increasingly aware of the importance of taking human factors into account in safety management. Accidents are commonly attributed to at-risk behavior or human error. When accidents are investigated, many of the systemic causal factors are human in their origins, e.g.: inadequate training, bad design or poor safety culture.

Behavior-based safety programs have become a popular approach to managing the people issues in safety. It is a scientific way to understand why people behave the way they do when it comes to safety. If properly applied an effective next step towards creating a truly proactive safety culture, where loss prevention is a core value.

It assumes that majority of work related accidents are caused by workers at-risk behaviors which can be reduced through behavior modification. An exploratory cross-sectional employees’ perception survey was used in conducting the study, using questionnaire / interactions administered on randomly selected employees of the two construction companies involved in the construction / maintenance project.

The results indicated that the implementation of behavior-based safety program in the construction project to a large extent reduced workers at-risk behaviors and accident rate. The research concludes that reduction in workers at-risk behaviors and accident rate is dependent on the implementation of behavior-based safety program in the construction project. Continuous review of employees’ behavior reinforcement techniques, encouragement of workers to observe/correct each other’s at-risk behaviors’, provision of extensive training for B-Safe observers and continuous commitment of management/workers to the elimination of at-risk behaviors in the workplace.

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