Behaviour Based Safety Programme
“We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our actions”
The key to the Network Rail Behaviour Based Safety Programme is the understanding that our actions affect people’s behaviour both on and off site - from a project’s design and management through to maintenance processes.
Behaviours on site and behaviour based safety affects and is affected by designers, managers, office staff, site staff, external parties (such as Regulators) and business leaders.
Given that our Culture is a result of our collective behaviours; developing a strong, continuously developing, behaviour based approach throughout the company and wider industry is part of building a positive safety Culture. This widens our scope to all behaviours, whether or not they are safety specific.
This includes having in place:
- Defined leadership commitment, with clear expectations and success measures / criteria
- Identified critical positive behaviours
- The right tools, processes and procedures, training and awareness of desired behaviours
To achieve such a culture there is a requirement to take a proactive and systematic approach at all levels. Network Rail has a strategy for a Behaviour Based Approach to safety.
This discusses:
- The Strategic objectives of a Behaviour Based Safety Programme
- The Business benefits of a Behaviour Based Safety Programme and how success of a programme could be measured
- The key attributes for successful Behaviour Based Safety Programmes
- The behaviour based safety interventions and the framework which Network Rail uses to structure these interventions
- Available resources and interventions from Network Rail
The Behaviour Change Team leads in this work and also interfaces with the wider business, building and maintaining consistency in our approach, please click on this Services link to learn more.