Behavior-Based Safety

SAFETY

Under the company’s continuous improvement policy, actions to spread the culture of safety continued, and the B-BS (Behavior-Based Safety) protocol was consolidated for all organisations operating at the Sarroch site and at all site areas.
The aim is to establish a single management tool to promote safe behaviours and consolidate the goal of ‘zero incident events’.

It is Sarlux’s established practice to promote safe behavior.

THE B-BS PROTOCOL

The B-BS protocol is divided into three phases:

All workers, on a rotating basis:

  • observe the behavior of their colleagues during performance of their duties;
  • record their observations of behavior on a form;
  • give feedback to the observed colleagues;
  • upload the observed data and their comments to a dedicated system.

Once a month, the HSE Committee (composed of operations managers, operations supervisors and HSE analysts):

  • reviews each plant unit’s event reports;
  • reviews the observation and behavior charts;
  • establishes priorities for HSE maintenance activities;
  • sets behavioral improvement targets;
  • prepares the list of topics to be covered by the Shift manager – worker meetings.

After the data analysis by the HSE Committee, staff meetings of the production units concerned are held to report on the results of the analysis and set improvement targets.

Behavior analysis
B-BS – Behavior-Based Safety – is a method that explains human behavior through behavior analysis, a branch of psychology that analyses the causal correlation of behavior with antecedents [A] – stimuli or events which come before the behavior [B] – and ‘consequences’ [C] (stimuli or events occurring after the behavior). In essence, the greatest influence in regulating, inhibiting and modifying behaviors are the consequences, not the antecedents, which merely evoke a behavior, i.e. they lead an individual to perform a behavior the first time, provided it is already included in the person’s toolkit of learned responses. Therefore, using Skinner’s paradigm (also known as operant conditioning paradigm and A → B ←→ C model), it is possible to modify behavior.

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