Task 1 3rd February 2021 Nebosh OBE

Task 1 3rd February 2021 Nebosh OBE




TASK 1: BEHAVIORAL SAFETY AUDITS AND THE USE OF CHECKLISTS

1)     What are the benefits of using the checklist of critical behaviors during these behavioral safety audits (BSAs)?                                           (10 Marks )                                                                                     

Note:  You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario.


Answer: BSA’s are essential and significant for food manufacturing industries in order to improve and maintain organization Occupational HSE. Using a critical behavior checklist it simplifies the safety audit and has many benefits some of them are enlisted below:

Using a behavioral checklist helps us identifying the types of safe and unsafe behaviors involved in the different types of tasks carried out on regular basis on the food manufacturing site. Accordingly this aids to design and implement corrective and preventive actions for unsafe behaviors and also encourages to give a verbal feedback, praising a site worker for their safe behavior boost their morale and make them love their work.

The use of critical behavior checklist also develops the skills of worker and their competencies. Absenteeism and sickness rates goes low which is a positive safety culture indicator, this results in less staff turnover. Motivated team of workers reduces the incidents and accidents rates, this plays vital role in order to maintain positive health and safety culture in an organization. Critical behavior checklist also gives us the data and past incident and accident records along with the preventive and corrective measures to be taken on site work and activities. Safe working system is established by the use of checklist within the organization which eases the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and workers on site. As per the scenario all departments have common checklist to carry out BSA regularly this is a sign of healthy HSE Management system and educate all the workers about the hazards and their controls. The scenario also states that the completed checklist and are collected daily, to compare and assess the data to identify incidents rate and give feedback to workers in weekly meetings of all departments. The checklist helps to establish effective communication method with the workers in order to address their concerns and resolve them. These checklists are version controlled and also helps us to identify if the HSE management system functioning effectively.

 

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