Behavioural Safety Awareness for Construction

Overview

This course aims to create a compelling argument for everyone to work safely and look out for their colleagues. The behavioural safety awareness course is highly interactive and encourages delegates to discuss and reflect on the impact of their and their colleagues’ behaviours. We can only effectively contribute to the goal of safe and healthy work for everyone by understanding, making decisions and acting according to one’s roles, responsibilities, and priorities. The achievement of this goal is improved by developing everyone’s ability, commitment, and empowerment to conduct observations, report unsafe (and safe) behaviours and conditions, and make appropriate and respectful interventions where necessary.

Who needs this Qualification?

This course is suitable for any person working in the construction industry.

Why is this training important?

Construction work takes various forms. However, most would agree that many activities carried out during construction work have the potential to result in serious injury and fatalities. Behavioural safety awareness training enables employees to recognise safe/unsafe acts and conditions and appropriately intervene and respond to these issues if they arise. Reinforcing positive behaviours and appropriately responding to human failure (errors and violations) support an organisation’s risk management process. Behavioural safety awareness training provides delegates with the knowledge, skills, and tools to recognise and report/respond to unsafe behaviours and human factors that influence the likelihood of errors and violations.

Course content

• Introduction to individual/team behaviour and consequences
• Introduction to Human Factors and how they influence behaviour (introduction to Ouch Human Factor evaluation tool ‘Possible and Preferable’)
• Description and examples of Human failure (errors and violations)
• Introduction to communication styles
• Communication barriers and how to address them (Introduction to Ouch approach: Permission Granted)
• Reporting of safe and unsafe behaviours and conditions
• The importance of consistent and immediate intervention
• Positive and negative behaviours and their impact on safety performance

Where beneficial, in-house courses can be contextualised to support an organisation’s culture and approach to health and safety management.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

• Recognise the importance of behaving safely and healthily
• List safe/unsafe behaviours and conditions that influence safety standards
• Recognise and respond to factors that influence behaviour (Human Factors: Possible and Preferable tool)
• Describe communication styles
• Identify and address barriers to communication (Permission Granted)
• Describe the importance of respectful, consistent and immediate interventions
• Report/respond to safe and unsafe behaviours and conditions
• Support their peer group and other stakeholders to work safely and healthily

Certificated by: Ouch Learning and Development – approved by CITB

Duration: Half Day

Assessment: Multiple choice exam

Prerequisites: None

Validity of award: 3 years

Included in the price:

• Interactive and engaging course
• Qualification & digital certificate
• Course manual & materials
• Access to FREE resources including Appointed Persons posters for your workplace
• Access to our customer portal to view your bookings, download previous certificates and generate training reports of your employees
• Automatic email reminders for certificate expiries