Raw materials · Quarry

Rethinking safety.With people, not against them.

Quarries are usually well organised because of their high hazard potential. Nevertheless, accidents kept happening at our client, an established family business. The cause lay not in missing rules but in how employees perceived the safety culture.

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At a glance

Industry

Mining, raw material extraction

Client

Family-run, medium-sized traditional company

Service

Application of the safety culture model, behaviour based safety

Result

Active involvement of employees, safety culture multipliers won

Behaviour Based Safety in quarries

Starting point

Although the company's safety culture had developed considerably over the years, many employees still remembered an old safety concept that mainly looked for culprits after accidents and responded with warnings. This misperception shaped everyday behaviour.

Our task

Using a psychological questionnaire, we made the misperceptions in the existing safety concept visible. Employees were then directly involved in developing a new sense of safety and encouraged to build their safety awareness and expertise.

Approach

Four steps
to the result.

Diagnosis

Psychological questionnaire uncovers misperceptions of the safety culture.

Participation

Employees co-develop the new understanding of safety.

Multipliers

Particularly committed employees become safety culture multipliers.

Anchoring

Safety is communicated and lived internally as a positive concept.

Result

Awakening employee potential

The misperception was remedied through targeted measures. Particularly committed employees were won as safety culture multipliers and communicate safety within the workforce as a positive concept.

From looking for culprits to safety awareness carried by the workforce itself.

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