Abstract
While behaviour-based safety (BBS) is not new and is even becoming increasingly common, particularly among large construction organisations, research on BBS and hence its implementation has paid limited attention to the role of innate drivers of behaviour, particularly human values (e.g. individual worker values). It is argued in this paper that there is a need for empirical studies in this area towards the generation of fresh insight that could be valuable for designing more robust interventions for strengthening BBS programmes.
Highlights
Occupational safety and health (OSH) is a concern in the industrial sectors of many countries around the world
As sustaining behaviour change remains a key challenge in implementing behavioural safety programmes (Lunt et al, 2008; Sherratt and Farrell, 2011), insight into the potential effect of human values on OSH behaviour could be invaluable in designing interventions that can help in achieving sustained behavioural change
OSH improvement is needed in the construction industry and, as part of efforts to achieve this, there is increasing attention on behaviour-based safety (BBS) to drive down incidents and accidents
Summary
ECI Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Complex Project Management, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK. Occupational Health and Safety Consultant, Nick Bell Risk Consultancy, St Arvans, UK. While behaviour-based safety (BBS) is not new and is even becoming increasingly common, among large construction organisations, research on BBS and its implementation has paid limited attention to the role of innate drivers of behaviour, human values (e.g. individual worker values). It is argued in this paper that there is a need for empirical studies in this area towards the generation of fresh insight that could be valuable for designing more robust interventions for strengthening BBS programmes
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