A Definitive Guide to Behavioural Safety

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of -behavioural safety- is overly person-focused. -If you can walk on hot coals, you can do anything - so be safe- needs to be dismissed out of hand, but also more advanced techniques based on coaching and empowerment fail to reflect the fact that, as -Just Culture- models show, the great majority of causes of unsafe behaviour are environmental. Our methodologies mustn-t focus on the person with an open mind that there may be an underlying root cause; they must start from the statistically proven assumption that there is an underlying cause. This shift in mindset has a profound impact on the type of methodologies we must lead with, how they are used, how they are perceived, and last but certainly not least, their efficacy.

A Definitive Guide to Behavioural Safety is a one-stop guide to all of the core theories and principles that underpin behaviour-based safety. All front-line behaviours that le