The b.SAFE D2iT Trust-based Safety Culture Model - Webinar series

Do you want to create an environment in your organisation in which you trust your employees and they trust you? Do you want to reduce the numbers of accidents, defects and injuries? Do you want to take the next step in safety culture? Do you want to do 'Safety Differently?'

Beehive's 'B.safe Trust-based Safety Culture Model' is the result of research carried out between 2013 and 2015 by Beehive in partnership with Bangor University's Wales centre for Behaviour Change and Alstom Power Services. Trust was found to be the most important interpersonal factor in Interdependent safety culture as measured on the DuPont Bradley Curve. But trust is an attitude, not a behaviour. You cannot mandate for trust. All you can do is create an environment in which trust is encouraged to flourish. And to do this, your organisation, management and employees have to be trustworthy.

b.SAFE - Safety Culture by  Beehive

b.SAFE in the nuclear Industry

Beehive is an employer-nominated approved provider for the National Skills Academy Nuclear, specialising in individual and organisational behaviour change.

There is now growing recognition of the contribution to safety culture of non-technical training such as the development of coaching, mentoring, leadership and management skills – areas where Beehive excels. Beehive is involved in the development of Human Performance capacity in the nuclear sector at a time when recent significant research and analysis of accidents has highlighted the need to focus on the Human Performance aspects of organisational arrangements within the nuclear industry to enhance the development of High Reliability Organisations (HROs). Regulatory authorities now increasingly require employers to provide a clear demonstration of organisational competence in the area of Human Performance and that’s where we can help your organisation.

We are able to deliver training to nuclear industry standard, including the two-day The Nuclear Triple Bar Manufacturing workshop, and the one-day Human Performance Fundamentals workshop.

A quiet revolution in safety

Launched on March 12th 2018 ISO 45001 is the new international safety standard that replaces OHSAS 18001. The new standard is designed to change the position of EHS from one of being ‘bolted on’ to the business to it being ‘built-in’ to organisational systems. This shift in focus represents a real opportunity for cultural change.

A look at some of the key differences between the two standards might help to explain why. ISO 45001 includes:

• Understanding the cultural context of the organisation and what drives it
• Recognising the needs and expectations of stakeholders – neither of these two have an equivalent in OHSAS 18001
• Changing focus from ‘management’ to ‘leadership’ and from ‘ensuring’ to ‘engaging’
• Increasing worker participation, engagement and consultation
• Moving from procedure and records to ‘documented information’
• Considering the objective and result of communication, not just who, when and what *

These changes have the potential to be what is known in the field of organisational development (OD) as ‘second order changes’ – change that can transform organisations.

The role of Organisational Development in EHS

Most behaviour change initiatives fail because the type of change required is misdiagnosed. Most culture change initiatives fail because the wider implications of the changes required aren’t fully understood or accommodated. Organisational development is a field which includes:

• Managing planned change, in a flexible manner that can be revised as new information is gathered.
• The creation and the subsequent reinforcement of change by institutionalising change.
• Applying changes in the strategy, structure, and/or processes of an entire system, such as an organisation, a single plant of a multi-plant firm, a department or work group, or individual role or job.
• Improving organisational effectiveness by helping members of the organisation to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to solve problems by involving them in the change process, and by promoting high performance including financial returns, high quality products and services, high productivity, continuous improvement and a high quality of working life. CIPD OD Factsheet

As an OD consultancy Beehive is perfectly placed to help organisations make the changes to mindsets, skills and tools needed to transition to ISO 45001. If you have certification to OHSAS 18001 you will have a window of three years to migrate to ISO 45001 to maintain the validity of certification (see NQA Information re 45001). And because ISO 45001 represents an opportunity for cultural rather than simply procedural change, the soone

Reenactment workshops

The use of reenactment is a common learning tool in safety critical industries where learning through trial and error is not an option.  The use of actors, role play and reenactment engage and immerse participants in a way second only to real life, allowing them to rehearse and debrief specific scenarios and situations to give them a new way forwards or to maximise the learning.

b.SAFE reenactment workshops combine our 20 years of experience of organisational behaviour, cutting edge research into safety behaviours, highly skilled and experienced actors and expert Beehive facilitators to enhance behaviour change in areas such as:

• Interactive safety workshops. We design bespoke workshops that include the reenactment of events and accidents using our associate script writers and director, and combine this with a 'fast forward' and 'rewind' facility and interpersonal skills development to enable participants to engage with the actors and test out different ways of approaching a situation and how that might change/have changed the ending
• Essential conversations and performance management. In this workshop we combine a basic performance management model with assertiveness and communication skills training. Participants can bring their own experience of unsatisfactory conversations to the workshop, and working with actors try out different ways of approaching a similar situation in future, or rehearse a future conversation to get the best from it

Reenactment: examples from real life incidents are a valuable learning tool

b.SAFE 'Fundamentals of Human Performance' one-day workshop

Beehive now offers a one-day introduction to Human Performance workshop, the b.SAFE 'Fundamentals of Human Performance'. ‘Human Performance focuses on both reducing errors and managing defences to create immunity from significant events’ (UK Nuclear Human Performance Forum).

To view introductory slides please download them here Human Performance Introductory Slides. For more information please contact Beehive on 01492 550 960 or email Sara at sara@beecd.co.uk.