BEHAVIOUR BASED SAFETY

In an effort to further encourage all personnel to be safe and to work safely at all times, therefore reducing any potential for injury, Northern Marine Management have implemented a safety process called 'Behaviour Based Safety ' (BBS) onboard all managed vessels.

The BBS process reinforces that 'safety' is part of the day to day operation of the vessel and is made up of the following key ingredients:

 

• Identifying why people behave in a certain way and what causes behaviours
• An established list of 'Key Safety Behaviours'
• Proper observation techniques
• Quality observations to find barriers to working safely
• Effective supervision
• Providing positive feedback
• Collecting and analysing the data from observations
• Removing barriers identified by observations

BBS does not replace any other part of Northern Marine 's safety programme. BBS is designed to supplement all the existing procedures in place to assure that the work environment is safe and all personnel have the skills and equipment they need to perform a job safely.

To assist with the implementation of the process, Northern Marine have produced a series of 4 video programmes entitled:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: What makes us take risks
Part 3: Observer training and feedback
Part 4: Managing the process

BBS has helped Northern Marine achieve a 48% reduction in their Lost Time Injury rate in the first year of implementation. These programmes are now available from Videotel for use by any shipping company planning to implement BBS.