BS :- Safety Attitudes , Steps to develop & Poor Attitude

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Chapter : Behavioral Safety

Safety Attitudes , Steps to develop & Poor Attitude

SAFETY ATTITUDE

It is difficult to define, but we recognize a good safety attitude and a poor safety attitude when we see it.The quality of one's safety attitude typically is described in terms of behavior. 

A person's actions reflect the attitude.

Behavior V/s Attitude: 

Behavior - What you do.

 

Attitude - What you think,feel or believe.

BBS strives to instill a safety - oriented attitude. A bad attitude may result in:-

• Committing an unsafe act
• Failing to do something you should or could have done to prevent an accident.

The worker who always wears prescribed personal protective equipment demonstrates good safety behavior and good safety attitude. One, who does not, demonstrates a poor safety attitude

STEPS TO DEVELOP SAFETY ATTITUDE

• “Can we make this job safer?”
• “How can someone be injured here?”
• “Let's take a minute to make sure that we've got all of the safety equipment we need.”
• “I wear these PPE’s all the time, just so that I don't forget.”
• “This stuff is a pain to wear, but without it, there's no other protection.”
• “Stop! Go get the right tool.”
• “Before we quit, let's pick up all this scrap.”

Poor Attitude :

IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ME 

“ It can’t happen to me”, may be you have said it yourself. If not said, most of us have at least thought it sometimes or the other. Usually we think it just before we do something that is little unsafe or may be quite a bit unsafe. We know the safe way to do it, but we take that chance. We are in effect saying , “ I know this could result in an accident, but it can’t happen to me”.

Why can’t it happen to you ? 

What makes you so special ? 

Why take chance in thefirst place ? 

Sooner or later the person who keeps saying “It can’t happen to me” will wind up saying “ If only I had………..”

1. “ If only I had worn my safety glasses, I wouldn’t have lost my eye ”.
2. “ If only I had walked instead of run, I wouldn’t have tripped and broken my leg ”
3. “ If only I had taken my ring off, I wouldn’t have lost my finger on the machine ”.

The next time you find yourself saying, “ It can’t happen to me,” remember that
anything can happen to anybody, anytime, anywhere, if they act in an unsafe manner
or are exposed to an unsafe condition.

All of us should remember that, a person with an “ It can’t happen to me ” attitude is
dangerous. He may escape himself but, he may expose others around him to injury
from an unsafe act or condition. If you see someone acting in an unsafe manner , tell
him about it. If you see an unsafe condition, report it.

A DANGER FORESEEN, IS AN ACCIDENT PREVENTED.