Resources
As these programs become more widespread, so too do resources and articles debunking them. Take a look at some of the material available:
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On this site: Nancy Lessin BBS - A Union Viewpoint
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Behavioural Safety Approaches To Managing Health and Safety - Papers from the ACTU Seminar, May 2005. Speakers who provided papers include Andrea Shaw, Dr Verna Bluett, Professor Andrew Hopkins, as well as from Mr Lloyd Fletcher Principal Consultant, B-Safe Australia, a company promoting BBS programs.
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Critique of behaviour based safety systems August 2010 [pdf] David Gerke of the Workers Health Centre (NSW)
- Professor Andrew Hopkins:
“What are we to make of safe behaviour programs?” Working Paper 36, National Research Centre for OHS Regulation [pdf]
- From the US the Steelworkers' Union report,
'Not walking the talk: DuPont's untold safety failures' [pdf ] on the real OHS performance of DuPont - creators of one of the world's most widespread Behaviour Based Safety Programs, STOP. Also check out the USW DuPont council webpages and a new website Dupont Safety Revealed
- Excellent trade union resources on Behaviour Based Programs are available through Hazards Magazine, a terrific resource supported by the UK's peak union council the TUC. Unions and union OHS reps should subscribe to it.
- UK's Trade Union Congress (TUC) 2011 guidance for unions criticising the behavioural safety approach as being unscientific and based on a 'blame the workers' approach - TUC guidance
Useful Trade Union Health and safety sites
Regular union newsfeeds or journals on health and safety can be subscribed to via:
- LabourStart
- Risks e- magazine (from the TUC)
- and our own SafetyNet Journal
Other useful trade union sites with general health and safety information include
- Canadian Autoworkers Union OHS Site
- New Zealand unions website for OHS reps
- NSW Workers Health Centre website - the longest established workers' health centre in Australia
- Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) website