Journey of Behaviour Based Safety in India: An Overview

By : Harbans Lal Kaila

Page No: 81-94

Abstract
Indian safety culture suffers between the choices of compliance and compromise. The journey of safety cultural mindset assessments and management has not been smooth rather painful for the safety officers as well as the companies employing them, as the focus was not on the human behaviour that is the root cause of almost all incidents and accidents harming both the people and the business. This article is an update about how the behavioral based safety approach developed in Indian organizations, in brief, a description about the journey of BBS in India. The results of a few organizations are described that implemented BBS and found the transformation in order to achieve a level up towards their zero-harm culture. Corporate Insights would helporganizations attaining mission of zero-harm.

Author :
Harbans Lal Kaila : Founder Director – Forum of Behavioural Safety, Mumbai, Professor of Psychology (retd.) SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai & Advisor & Professor Emenities, Shri JJT University, Rajasthan.
 

DOI: DOI No. : https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.01.9