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Behaviour-based safety (BBS): a construction industry's perspective

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conference contribution
posted on 2015-11-06, 14:47 authored by Babajide Talabi, Alistair Gibb, Francis Edum-Fotwe
The behaviour related approach to dealing with occupational safety and health (OSH) has been shown to be valuable and as a result many construction organisations employ this method to achieve robust safety management systems. Behaviour-based safety (BBS) has various elements and comes in different forms and designs; and different organisations pay more attention to different elements. As a result, organisations typically give their behaviour-based safety programmes (BBSP) different names and pride themselves for achieving high safety standards because of the aspects of behavioural safety that they focus on. However, it is unclear as to which specific aspects of such programmes are the keys to success and which are of secondary importance to improving OSH. This paper presents the findings of a desk study of the top 100 UK and USA construction organisations (contractors and consultants) ranked by turnover; this involved a comparative analysis of BBSPs that led to the development of seven major themes. This study reveals the need to encourage smaller companies to undertake BBS as well as understand employees’ ideals so that they can be effectively and efficiently supported. This study is part of a three-year doctoral research programme that investigates the human aspect of OSH.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

CIB W099 Benefitting Workers and Society through Inherently Safe(r) Construction

Pages

180 - 189 (10)

Citation

TALABI, B.O., GIBB, A.G.F. and EDUM-FOTWE, F.T., 2015. Behaviour-based safety (BBS): a construction industry's perspective. IN: Behm, M. and McAleenan, C. (eds). Proceedings of the CIB W099 Benefitting Workers and Society through Inherently Safe(r) Construction, 9th-11th September 2015, Belfast, pp. 181 - 190.

Publisher

EEI Publishing / © CIB W099

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is a conference paper.

ISBN

9781909854017

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Behm, Michael;McAleenan, C.

Location

Belfast