DNV GL’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on May 25, a one-day course on Behaviour Based Safety (BBS).

Safety research, over the last century, has revealed that human error is the primal contributing factor to the majority of casualties in the maritime industry. From the accident of the Titanic to that of the Costa Concordia, seafarers are apt to behave during critical situations with the same wrong mental model. Although the introduction of technology in the shipping industry aims to improve a ships’ competitiveness and the probability of occurrence of unwanted incidents, seafarers seem not to follow the same rhythm of evolution, due to human limitations.
BBS is a modern answer to this challenge for the maritime domain. BBS is an evolving process that uses positive reinforcement to change unsafe individual behaviour and improve safety performance, as part of a positive safety culture.
In this seminar you will work through the full scope of BBS. You will optimize your very own attitude and behaviour style and review the methods that can bring about effective BBS.

Objectives:

After your active participation in this course you will:
Ø be familiar with the fundamentals of Behaviour Based Safety (BBS)
Ø have a broad understanding of how seafarer’s behaviour can affect safety
Ø be familiar with the needs and benefits of quality BBS
Ø be able to identify safe and unsafe behaviour
Ø be able to distinguish the attitudes that affect behaviour
Ø understand human failure in terms of causes and consequences
Ø get introduced to ways of motivating seafarers to promote safe behaviour
Ø be familiar with the critical error reduction techniques that can be enacted through BBS
Ø get introduced with safety intervention techniques

The course focuses on:

Ø The generic structure of BBS
Ø The various tools of BBS
Ø Different ways to introduce BBS in your organization

Who should attend:

On shore and on board personnel involved in operations, maintenance and other support areas. Furthermore, safety practitioners, safety specialists, human resources managers can highly benefit from this seminar.

Teaching Method:
Lecture, Discussion, Interaction among participants, case exercises.