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Behaviour Based Safety
What is 'Behaviour Based Safety'?
Behavioural Based Safety is an approach to safety that focuses on workers' behaviour as the cause of most work-related injuries and illnesses. This is dangerous, as it shifts the focus from identifying the hazards in workplaces and then eliminating or reducing the risks associated with them - which is what employers have the legal duty to do. These programs are being introduced in Australian workplaces. The union movement has produced a kit for health and safety representatives and delegates - go to the Toolbox section to check it out and download it.
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Behaviour Based Safety Schemes - A Union Viewpoint
Nancy Lessin is the health and safety co-ordinator for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and is an international union authority on Behaviour Based (or Behavioural) Safety Schemes. She delivered the keynote address to the 2003 VTHC OHS Reps Conference in October 2003. [read more]