Black Hat Training
Over the last few months, we have focussed on Behavioural Training with all Supervisors and Managers across our site teams. Behaviour-based safety involves managing the changeable behaviours workers have on site to help create a physically and mentally safer working environment. The wrong kind of behaviour on a construction site can be dangerous and lead to accidents and potentially fatal injuries. Behaviour will change when we motivate safe behaviour.
Expectations:
- Lead by example
- Don’t walk by
- Plan
- Communicate
Key Objectives:
- Review your incident record
- Know your ABCs
- Learn positive and negative reinforcement to increase behaviour
- Use punishment and extinction to decrease behaviour
- Trickle down behaviour – all members of management are fully compliant with health and safety conduct and use positive and negative reinforcement to correct behaviour here first.
So far, we have conducted our Black Hat Training sessions at several sites up and down the country, including:
- HMP Millsike (East Yorks),
- HMP Bullingdon (Oxfordshire),
- Waste Transfer Station (Hertfordshire),
- North Lindsey College (Lincolnshire)
- Southgate University of Huddersfield (West Yorks.)
We’ll be continuing to roll this out to other sites reaching a total of over 80 people in our workforce.
As part of our commitment with USAG, we strive to ensure that best practice and procedures are upheld across our site teams with a clear understanding and vision of the standards expected. This is achieved through regular training that we invest our time in.
Who are USAG?
They provide a “forum for employers, including asset owners, contractors, and industry partners to influence and promote improved health and safety standards” within the utility sector, and are the leading provider of industry knowledge for safe excavation around utilities.