• Is able to set time aside each week for the initiative
• Is interested and keen to carry out the initiative
• Can communicate with others and will contribute
• Perceives safety as an important site issue

• Attending & participating in safety steering team meetings on a weekly basis
• Promoting workforce ownership of the process
• Identifying and defining key safety behaviours
• Developing behavioural observation checklists
• Planning the observation strategy
• Conducting and assisting with observations
• Retrieving observation data and storing them in a safe place
• Providing feedback on progress and safety results
• Facilitating safety goal-setting
• Deciding on appropriate reinforcement methods
• Proposing action plans based on the root cause of unsafe behaviours

Team members should be selected at random by human resources personnel and approached for voluntary participation. The internal facilitator is a good person to approve the candidates as workers that would contribute well and check if they are matched to the criteria above.


Primary information to provide to the operative candidates:

WHO: The programme is a Camborne School of Mines (University of Exeter) initiative that is supported by the Minerals Industry, EU social funds and the HSE. It is also supported fully by senior management.

AIM: It's aim for your site is to improve safety and reduce unsafe acts. The wider objective is to offer a method of reducing unsafe acts/prevent accidents to the quarry sector.

UNIQUE: It is unlike any other safety initiative. It is a bottom-up approach, which means that it is entirely managed and controlled by operatives!

FUN: It will be an interesting and enjoyable project, with the operative steering team deciding on fun ways to hold the interest of the rest of the workforce. For example, organising competitions, designing posters and delivering rewards for safety. The steering team at a previous quarry site has very much enjoyed and got a lot out of the experience.

VOICE: It will give the operative a voice to raise issues on the shop floor with those in positions of authority and power.

REQUIRES: Duties will involve weekly or fortnightly meetings that will last between 15 to 60mins (average 30mins).

ENTAILS: The crux of the programme is to focus on twenty key safety behaviours that are to be measured (with checklists) and improved upon.

BIG HELP : This is a unique opportunity to be involved in something that will help reduce injuries and fatalities on site and help the quarry industry as a whole.

The first task of this phase is to draw out safety behaviours from phase 1 data collection (e.g. from accident/near miss records and interviews). This involves writing a list of any behaviour that is related to safety from the initial information gathered.

A "behaviour" is an observable activity.

The following parameters are VERY important when forming ideas on what could be a key safety behaviour:

Table 2.2 The Key Safety Behaviour must be: (i) OBSERVABLE - I.e. You can see it! For example, you may not be able to observe fine dust particles in the air that are hazardous to health. This, therefore, can not be classified as a behaviour. You can however see a bagging operator throw a bag down in a way that may instigate extra fine dust flying into the air. His behaviour is observable, so this can be a KSB. (ii) SPECIFIC - Each behaviour has to be very specific and to the point. For example, "safely handling of bags" is ambiguous because it may mean one thing to one person and another thing to another person. It should be a single unambiguous behaviour, rather than incorporating a cluster of behaviours. For example the ambiguous KSB below can be split up into several specific KSBs: Ambiguous KSB Good Individual Specific KSB Driving Safely -Giving priority to loading vehicles -Driving within the site's speed limit -Using the correct traffic route -Parking in authorised areas (iii) A MAJOR SAFETY ISSUE ON SITE - Important to Safety on Site (iv) LIKELY TO CAUSE AN ACCIDENT - Whilst it would be ideal to tackle every safety act possible, it only makes sense to include those behaviours that may result in injury or accident within the top 20.

Based on the list compiled from the initial data collection, the steering team can carry out individual interviews with workers on what they believe to be the most important and prevalent unsafe actions on site.

Please see the materials case for a form previously used to obtain ratings from the workforce. You can enter your specific KSB (delete current example figures) and print off for distribution.


NB>This involvement from the workforce facilitates operative ownership of the programme and will serve to increase use and acceptance of checklists incorporating the final 20 KSB selected.

Please see the materials case for a spreadsheet to enter the scores from the form and to provide relevant ratings for each score.

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Instructions here?E.g.sort by largest to smallest? Create ratings formula in excel!?*

Materials 2.4 - Excel spreadsheet to score KSB operative Form answers

Examples of such material include:

-Posters with KSB on
-Toolbox talks with photos describing each KSB. E.g. An example of a safe KSB and the same KSB acted out unsafely.
-Coasters with KSB cartoon pictures on