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Some of these rules, particularly this type of rule governing more generic issues that work specific,
depend on much more than just following the protocol of a typical work site. They demand your
subscription to a culture of good behavioural safety.

To embrace these rules, they need to become second nature, a force of habit, like putting your seatbelt
on when you get into the car or putting salt on your chips! It just has to be the way you do things, and
that’s that!

In this case, the operative had supervised sites himself before and had been in a position of
responsibility where he enforced with others not to use their phones during such operations. Here, he
was distracted, busy, under pressure and that’s why he didn’t think to hang up the phone before moving
the van. However, if he took a phone call having just paid for his bag of chips, would that distract him
enough that he would forget to put salt on his chips? Forgive the example, but… unlikely! It is
imprinted in our sub-conscience and we do it automatically. And this is how these LIFE SAVING
Rules need to be, second nature.

Some general comments on Behavioural Safety

Site operatives: Management:
• Achieving a positive safety culture • Being creative with delivery of
look out for each other, not just grass safety message, considering how
people up different people receive different
• Understanding the consequences messages
beyond the incident: Who it affects • Have an understanding of the
and why, and for how long existing culture of a workplace and
• Consider responsibility and liability: work the safety message in with it
who is responsible? • Near misses/Potential Incidents, how
• Have an understanding of the and why do we report them: To
existing culture of a workplace and establish the root cause, implement
work the safety message in with it the corrective action, prevent it
• Near misses/Potential Incidents, how becoming an accident next time
and why do we report them: To • Make a commitment to a safer
establish the root cause, implement working culture: listen to feedback,
the corrective action, prevent it be proactive, be inquisitive, be
becoming an accident next time interested
• Make a commitment to a safer
working culture: learn the rules and
make time to understand them,
question them if you want to, be
proactive in raising issues with And above all: think about what you’re
safety procedures or unsafe doing, then think again: What’s the Worst
conditions thing that could happen (constant LMRA)

How do we sense danger?
• See We can see faulty equipment etc In this PI, his vision was potentially compromised if
he had the phone to his ear and couldn’t turn around the whole way
• Hear We can hear if a car is coming up behind us In this PI, his hearing, or listening
capability was compromised
• Smell We can smell dangerous gases in the atmosphere