ABSTRACT
A successful health and safety management approach will recognize and value the important and fundamental contribution that individuals make in support of a safe working environment. Effective health and safety policies seek not only to combat the possibility of accident and hazardous incidents, but also to generate a wider culture of welfare, health and safety throughout the organization. To achieve this the organization must seek to understand the key influences upon the behavioural characteristics of employees and management. The development of behaviour safety management approaches has been the subject of study in recent years leading to goal setting practices and the piloting of behavioural safety auditing. This chapter discusses the importance of people to an organization developing a health and safety management subsystem.
