Join in building a culture of prevention on occupational safety and health. Steps on how we can prevent and encourage a culture on prevention on occupational safety and health risk, hazard, incidents and injury in our workplace.

1. PETROLEX OIL & GAS
WORLD SAFETY DAY
JOIN IN BUILDING A CULTURE OF PREVENTION ON OSH
AUTHOR AND PRESENTER: BAKARE SEGUN

2. Join in building a culture of prevention on
Occupational Safety and Health
 Prevention is better than cure like we know
 Culture is a way of life
 Prevention means to be proactive.
 To cure means to be reactive.
 To cure means you will be spending more.
 Incidents and accidents has two costs
1. Direct Cost refers to the measurable costs
arising directly from accident. E.g. Medical
bills
2. Indirect Cost refers to costs that are difficult
to quantify precisely.

3. Join in building a culture of prevention
on Occupational safety and health
 How can we as a company (PETROLEX) join in
building a culture of prevention on Occupational
safety and health in our workplace and Nigeria?
 We can do that by:
1. Visible management leadership.
2. Discouraging workplace culture(Getting the job
done at the expense of safety) and embracing Safety
Culture( Do it Right)
3. Introducing a behavioral system approach.
(SKILL – ATTITUDE – EXPERIENCE)

4. Join in building a culture of prevention
on Occupational safety and health
Remember that Consequences become
Activators that influence Behavior.
 Remember Your ABC’s?
Behaviors

5. Join in building a culture of prevention
on Occupational safety and health

Activators
 Availability
 Peer pressure
 Rushing
 Training / Demos
 Mild consequence
 Policies / Procedures
 Supervisor feedback
 Always did it like this
 Incentive / Disincentive
Behavior
Not wearing eye
protection when
required
Consequences
• Injury
• Penalty
• Peer approval
• Comfort
• Convenience
• Save time
• Feedback
Reality-based
behavior change
Cognitive-based
behavior change
Behaviors

6. Join in building a culture of prevention
on Occupational safety and health
4. Encouraging proactive safety activities to take
place before an incident occurs and provide
tools to accomplish them.
5.Stimulate interaction and communication
throughout the organization between peers,
workers and supervisors, and between
supervisors and managers.

7. Join in building a culture of prevention on
OSH
5. Applying Job safety Analysis(JSA) in carrying out our
task.
6. Introduction of root cause analysis which encourages
identifying underlying factors of conflicting motivations,
undesirable behaviors and conditions to be addressed
timely before it lead to fatality.
7. Ensuring near misses , incidents and accidents are
reported , investigated, controls put in place and lesson
learned shared among workers.
8. Ensuring prevention of incidents is managed as part of
our normal business.
9. Encouraging everyone to owns the process- not just
depending on the HSE Staff “to make safety happen”.

8. Join in building a culture of prevention on
OSH
 Think Back...
 Unsafe work habits are reinforced when nothing bad happens, so it is difficult
to change behavior.
 Even before near losses occur, undesirable behavior contrary to the
organization's job standards can contribute to future incidents. In other words,
accidents don’t just happen – they are caused.
 Below the near loss level of the safety triangle, there are factors that can
contribute to future incidents.

9. Join in building a culture of prevention on
OSH
 If we don't correct the problems at the base of the
triangle, we suffer the consequences at the top of the
triangle!
Minor Injury
Equipment/
Property Damage
Near Losses
Major
Injury
Undesirable Behaviors &
Conditions
Conflicting Motivations
& Root Causes
Below the near loss level of
the safety triangle, there
are factors that can
contribute to future
incidents.

10. Join in building a culture of prevention on
OSH
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