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ZERO INCIDENT PROCESS:
A solution to the safety challenge
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ZIP is a process that gives a workplace the genuine opportunity to reach the goal of Zero Incidents.
It is a psychologically based safety process that moves your people from extrinsically driven safety to intrinsically motivated safety.
It does this by focusing on the Person component of the Safety Culture Model.
ZIP is designed to empower people to take control of their personal safety by becoming more effective within the systems they work in. These systems are made up of the Practices and Environment component of the Safety Culture Model.
ZIP does this by giving people insight into the way their brain works, their thinking, their attitudes and how this drives their behaviour. It gives participants the tools to take control of their thoughts and feelings, and thus the results they get in life, especially regarding their safety.
Whilst ZIP moves Safety Culture change from BBS to the more mature CBS, it is designed to work alongside and enhance any BBS initiatives that are already operating in your business. It fills in the gaps between where your safety performance currently is and where you want it to be.
It moves a step beyond BBS to the underlying psychological causes of behaviour – thinking and feeling. This is what people refer to as the ‘hearts and minds’ of safety.
ZIP and Your Safety Culture
ZIP can enhance your Safety Culture regardless of where your business is on the journey to Zero Incidents.
Importantly, it provides maintenance tools to facilitate the continued journey toward excellence.
There is no way a company could write a policy or put a guard in place for every possible risk in their business. What keeps a person safe most of the time is their skills, knowledge and attitudes towards safety.
The link between safety attitudes and safety performance is well documented and is the focus of ZIP.
While ZIP does not address the Environment and Practices components of the Safety Culture Model directly, it enhances them by focusing on the Person component.
ZIP is not a program in “what” is safe, nor is it instructions on “how” to follow procedures. Instead, ZIP focuses on providing people with information about the “why” of safety and the skills to make safe choices in the workplace and at home.
It achieves this goal by presenting the brain as a machine and ZIP as an apprenticeship in how to work this machine skillfully and how to maintain it.
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