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Think: Where Safety Starts

Think: Where Safety Starts. Welcome. Use this slide for your own housekeeping or introduction points. About today’s session. Is safety really our number one priority? Do we understand all the potential risks in the project? And throughout the life of the assets we design and build?

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Think: Where Safety Starts

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  1. Think: WhereSafety Starts

  2. Welcome Use this slide for your own housekeeping orintroduction points. Think: Where Safety Starts

  3. About today’s session Is safety reallyour number one priority? • Do we understand all the potential risks in the project? • And throughout the life of the assets we design and build? • Do budgets and timing get in the way of safety? Think: Where Safety Starts

  4. Safety isn’t just about the frontline • Not reactive – e.g. slips, trips and falls, or avoiding hazards • It is about anticipating risks throughout the life of an asset or piece of equipment. • It’s our role to design safety in. • Today we will talk about our role, and how we think about safety. Think: Where Safety Starts

  5. The railway is a system • A collection of stations and terminals connected by track, linked by junctions, bridges and tunnels, regulated by signals and controls. • It’s simply to get passengers and freight safely to their destination station. Think: Where Safety Starts

  6. A simple version of the railway system Think: Where Safety Starts

  7. A different way to think about safety • Not blame-seeking after an incident. • Anticipating risk. • Understanding the potential for incidents. Think: Where Safety Starts

  8. The Swiss cheese model Think: Where Safety Starts

  9. The types of failures • ‘Holes’ are failures that cause safeguards to fail – e.g. human errors or breakdown of equipment. • Underlying causes are in the system or organisation that lead to failures. Think: Where Safety Starts

  10. I will always put safety first…? Think: Where Safety Starts

  11. What we’ve just seen… • Did any character think they were doing a bad job or were increasing safety risks? • Thinking about the Swiss cheese model, did any of the characters create or fail to close ‘holes’? What were they? • Do you recognise some of the issues they had? Think: Where Safety Starts

  12. Thinking about the characters in more detail In small groups/pairs: • Read the character sheet. • Discuss: • Who and what has an impact on the decisions or actions the character took? • Who was directly or indirectly affected by those decisions or actions? • What could or should the character have done to design out or reduce risk? Think: Where Safety Starts

  13. Looking at examples… Think: Where Safety Starts

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  20. Why do incidents happen? • Rarely from deliberate violation. • Usually from: • Designing something without fully understanding what it will take to build, use or maintain it. • Planning or procuring something without fully understanding what’s required to build use and maintain it. • Communications breakdown between the people who specify, design and plan and the people out in the field or on site. Think: Where Safety Starts

  21. Thinking about our own experiences In your groups, thinking of events you know about: • Share examples of ‘Swiss cheese’ in action. • Decide which is the best (with the most layers or holes) and jot down: • What happened (or could have happened)? • Who might this incident have had an impact on? • You’ll be passing the sheet on to the next group… Think: Where Safety Starts

  22. Our examples • Swap sheets with another table, then discuss: • Which of the categories does the example fit into? • Designing without full understanding • Planning or buying without full understanding • Communication breakdown • What should the barriers or controls have been? • What might have caused the holes? • What might have been done to avert the incident? • Feedback to the group. Think: Where Safety Starts

  23. Thinking about what I can do • Let’s discuss: • What we, as individuals, can do? • What support do we need (from your manager or others) to do it? • Be specific. • Think about what we’ve been discussing. Think: Where Safety Starts

  24. Your feedback is valuable • Think of the one thing you will change or would like to see changed. • It might be one of the things we wrote earlier. • Jot it on your sheet as a reminder. • Follow the link in the email to the survey. Think: Where Safety Starts

  25. We’ve come a long way • Britain’s railway is amongst the safest in the world. • We are constantly trying to improve safety. • Technical or product related advances. • Process, practice or communication improvements. • For example… Think: Where Safety Starts

  26. Tilting wagons Think: Where Safety Starts

  27. Your examples… • If your group has done pre-work that provided images or text, insert this here. • If not, encourage the group to share examples of best practice, from inside or outside the industry, and jot them on a flipchart. Think: Where Safety Starts

  28. Thinking about the one thing we can change Think: Where Safety Starts

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