Summary: This two day course provides health and safety managers with an understanding as to why workers take risks.
Provider: Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL)
Location: UK
Duration: 2 days
Knowledge/experience needed: None
Website: www.hsl.gov.uk
Email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk
This two day course, delivered by HSL psychologists, will provide you with an understanding as to why workers take risks, covering the many factors that influence behaviour. It will also highlight the strengths and weaknesses of traditional behaviour modification strategies for correcting ‘unsafe’ behaviour, highlighting why such approaches may have limited impact. You will learn about:
- Why people take risks at work
- The consequences of risk taking for individuals and the organisation
- Factors that influence behaviour
- Strategies to encourage safer behaviour/ less risk taking
- Effective risk communication
- Worker engagement
- Safety culture and safety climate
- Integrating behaviour change with the health and safety management system
- Maintaining change
The course will be most appropriate for health and safety managers, with limited knowledge/ experience of behaviour change approaches. However, it will also be relevant to those who have established behaviour change initiatives but are interested in how the psychological principles of human behaviour can be mapped onto an integrated health and safety management system.
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