Safety Stand Down - Intervention

1. Safety Stand Down - Intervention

2. Safety Stand Down Introduction: • What is a safety intervention? • To involve oneself in an at-risk situation so as to alter or hinder an action or the development if an incident or injury. • A safety intervention is action taken to prevent an injury or incident from occurring. • What is at-risk? • At-risk behavior is a behavior that exposes a worker to a potential injury. At-risk condition is a condition with the potential to cause injury, property damage or process failure.

3. Safety Stand Down Why intervene? Every Employee has the Right and duty to intervene • All Canadian OHS legislation requires employers to promotes the right and the duty of every employee to intervene in the interests of safety • An intervention process facilitates feedback • An intervention process is proactive • em·ploy·ee • a person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation.

4. Safety Stand Down Benefits of intervention • Injury prevention • Incident prevention • Identification of at-risk behavior or condition • Fewer equipment damage incidents • Fewer material loss incidents • Completion of work or task on time and budget

5. Safety Stand Down Who should intervene? • All employees have the obligation to speak up when they identify an at-risk behavior or condition • Employees in a leadership role need to be a role model; if an activity doesn’t look right start to ask questions • Employees in a leadership role give silent consent when they ignore an at-risk situation; they need to speak up • If employees don’t see leaders intervening they will not think it is important – if it is important to the leader it will be important to the employee

6. Safety Stand Down How do you intervene? • Having the courage to stop at-risk situations is what is important • Stress the friendly, helpful protective nature of the intervention • Interventions help each other – avoid personal criticism • Coach employees to use words to stop at-risk without offending – don’t lecture • Keep it short • Never ask for names • If discipline is attached to a safety intervention employees will not intervene – we don’t like to get our co-workers in trouble

7. Safety Stand Down Where? • Everywhere where work is being conducted • In vehicle cabs • In parking lots • In offices, building and camps • On drilling rigs, on service rigs, on well sites, • Seismic operations • Pipeline construction sites

8. Safety Stand Down When do you intervene? • When you see an at-risk behavior • Not wearing a seat belt • Talking on a cell phone while driving • When an employee is standing in the line of fire • When you see an at-risk condition • A vehicle parked without the park brake applied • Ice build up on a high pedestrian traffic path • An unsecured load of pipe on a trailer

9. Safety Stand Down Conclusion • Why wait until it’s too late… • Stop at-risk actions and conditions before injury or incidents occur • It is your duty and obligation to intervene on behalf of safety.