HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING – SAFE BEHAVIOURS

AND HABITS
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Habits New Year.. Same old?

NOUN
habits (plural noun)
a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is
hard to give up.- a practice, pattern, convention…

Can be good (positive) or bad (negative) in our personal and

work life..

 Exercise
 Logging all working hours correctly and on time..
 Proactive reporting
 Constructive challenge

 Cut and paste in documents

 Not adhering to process (PCRA, tagging of HASP)
 Poor quality documents (DRA, no risk assessment)
 Working longer and longer hours

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Behaviours
The way in which a person acts or conducts themselves, especially towards others.

We all have different levels of what we deem to

be acceptable- acceptable behaviours and
acceptable risk
Our behaviours and choices that we make
can impact and influence relationships on site
and in the office-peer pressure client/contractor
etc.

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Behaviours
Creating a fair and just culture – how we do things around here…
Fair culture | Safety Central (networkrail.co.uk)

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Impact on Safety
Fatigue and its affects on
The quality of the work provided from GEC is unquestionable and every wellbeing, quality of output;
individual demonstrates their continuous high level of responsibility and
long term impact on people
commitment towards the project, however, it's been shown during IDRs that
they stay outside of core hours to deliver. This is time they stop seeing their
in Arcadis as well as
families and procuring a healthy equilibrium. The business should ensure delivery
that no IDR demands anyone to act in such a way and the 12 hours door to
door principle should be maintained.

The problem was immediately raised with the team leads and escalated to
the CRE who acknowledged the problem. It has not happened ever since

Hazard & Risk

Identification.. How good
are we?
As well as practical
application and
proactively challenging
others

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Our Journey..

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Next steps
 Stop, Pause, Reflect – as an individual, a team and/or a project..
 Review HASP, Project Documentation, Design Risk Assessments.. They need to be specific-
it not only helps Arcadis during the work but also is a line of defence..
 Ask for help..
 Be the positive change.. We have Safety Stewardship and the principle of “If Not Me then
Who?”
 Use sources of information;
o The BMS UK&I BMS Home - Home (sharepoint.com)
o UK SHEQ SP (accessed from the main Intranet)
o Model Risk Assessments- tailor them to ensure they are specific to your work and
location Risk Assessment - Home (sharepoint.com),
https://arcadiso365.sharepoint.com/teams/UK_IMS/_layouts/15/osssearchresults.aspx?
u=https%3A%2F%2Farcadiso365%2Esharepoint%2Ecom%2Fteams%2FUK_IMS&k=m
odel risk assessment
o IHS – accessed from the main intranet… see Technical References..
o Client standards and guidance (NR Working at Height for instance.. NR/L2/OHS/022) &
Arcadis process Working at Height - Home (sharepoint.com)
o HSE Website (Search by topic) HSE: Information about health and safety at work

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