We control hazards such as working at height, pressure systems, electricity and chemicals with rigour – because the potential consequences are high. If we applied the same discipline to culture, would we be better at preventing poor safety culture from contributing to harm?

Although culture is identified as a significant factor in many safety incidents, it’s still treated in some organisations as a mysterious catch-all – hard to define and too hard to control. It doesn’t have to be.

Think of safety culture as a hazard. Then, like any hazard, we can:

• Identify cultural threats that can lead to a safety incident.
• Define controls that stop those threats from escalating or that reduce the potential impact if something goes wrong.
• Monitor cultural controls to ensure they are working, and if controls are absent or weak, take early action to strengthen them.

That’s where BB&A come in.

Everything we do focuses on strengthening your cultural controls.

Whether that means defining behavioural expectations, developing positive safety leadership behaviours, equipping leaders with tools to have generative safety conversations, embedding a just and fair approach or creating truly interactive and engaging inductions and team-based risk discussions.

We help you to identify your weaknesses and strengthen your controls, so your culture doesn’t contribute to a safety event.

Get in touch to hear how we can help.