Reducing Hazards

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Health and Safety Presentation to Ontario
Primary Forest Council November 13, 2003
Ontario Region
Keith McMillan
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Current HS issues in CEP Ontario

• Fiberglas Canada
• Not Yet Healthy
• Disease Clinic
• Surface Mining Regulations
• Training
• Ban Asbestos Network
• Antimony
• HRDC Issues

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BBS and its various forms

• Not a new concept
• Rat psychology B. F. Skinner
• NICs and PICs
• Applied to people
• Attempts to control behaviours without addressing
  hazards
• Results in blame the worker syndrome

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Going further with rat behaviour

• Frederick Taylor
• H. W. Heinrich
• 85-90 of all accidents due to human error
• No studies theory only
• Ancestry and social environment
• Inherited or acquired faults
• Unsafe performance stupidity
• All these reasons are faults of person

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Other thoughts

• Jean Surrey
• The idea of a person being accident prone is no
  more useful than that of fate
• There is no single personality characteristic
  associated with proneness
• M. and A.R. Hale
• Studied 350 articles finding that researchers
  concentrated on factors associated with people
  mostly because of the bias of old theory

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Two Extremes

• Workplace 1
• A workplace with no tools, equipment or
  facilities safety improvements
• In order to be safe in this environment workers
  need to alter their behaviour to remain safe
• Employers would have us believe this is possible
• However
• People make mistakes therefore, eventually a
  worker is injured. The more hazards the more
  injuries result.

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Two Extremes

• Workplace 2
• A workplace with every tool, equipment and
  facilities constantly assessed for hazards with
  appropriate corrective action
• Workers still make the same mistakes as before
  but far fewer injuries occur because the exposure
  potentials have been erased

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CEP Method of Reducing Hazards

• Identify, Assess, Control
• Control takes three forms by this hierarchy
• Control at the source
• Along the Path
• At the worker
• BBS is but a very small portion of the HS picture

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Unsafe act implies the worker was careless
because the worker has responsibility for the
act.
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BBS as a corporate thrust

• If forced to go with BBS try to ensure that two
  components are included
• Hazard reduction
• Anonymity

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