2019 Conference Presentations

The recordings of these presentations is proudly sponsored by Simtars

Pope/Wall – Behavioural Safety: Using Predictive Analytics to get More from Your Safety Observations


David Pope
Principal, POPEHSE Pty Ltd

Richard Wall
CEO, EMEX

Behavioural Safety is helping many organisations make inroads into improving safety performance.

Founded on decades of psychology research, behavioural safety positively reinforces target behaviours. By interacting in a positive manner, the studies indicate behavioural change is initiated.

Interactions occur between people and is often called a ‘safety observation’. Safety observations are, in many cases, documented into a system to scoreboard the number and type of behaviours observed.

Scoreboards focus on how many observations occur, rather than why behaviours occur. Evaluating the effect of an interaction, assessing the behavioural change and its repeatability, is paramount in behavioural safety.</p .

Powerful algorithms have been developed using the latest data science techniques, to assess the effect of interventions, like safety conversations, on large groups. These techniques are widely used in Marketing/Advertising, Finance/Insurance, Healthcare, Law Enforcement, and Politics.

Safety conversations are a window into the individual interactions. With certain data, it is possible to identify positive, negative or neutral interactions, and the effect over time.

This paper presents a robust and novel approach to assess sentiment analysis of documented safety observations, to predict the persuasive effects of leaders on their groups, and the resultant safety outcomes.

You may also like

Hey - Evidence-Based Psychological Risk Management
Genevieve Hey Director/Principal Consultant, Genevieve Hey Consulting Pty Ltd A mines’ safety and health management ...
Gomes - Reactive to Proactive - An Early Intervention Approach to Health Promotion
Dr. Rolf Gomes Founder and Cardiologist, Heart of Australia Corporate Health Initiative Despite the enormous ...
Desira - Management of Diesel Exhaust in Underground Mines
Mark Desira Inspector of Mines – Occupational Hygiene The underground mine environment may contain a number of ...
Houldsworth/Russell - Switching on Integrated Safety Systems in Glencore’s North Queensland Copper Assets
Graham Houldsworth Principal Advisor – Strategy and Compliance, Glencore Copper Assets Andrew Russell Managing ...
Clarke - Hazard Reporting and Innovation: A Cultural Journey
Adrian Clarke SHE Manager, Anglo American A proactive safety culture is the desired end state for Anglo American’s ...
Bajic - Best Practice Gas Monitoring
Dr Snezana Bajic Technical Services Manager, Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (Simtars) Reliable ...
Wu/Ren - Spontaneous Combustion of Coal: Detection and Control in Underground Coal Mines
Professor Jianming Wu Visiting Professor of University of Wollongong and Director of AST Australia A/Professor Ting ...
Burnett - Grasstree Development Team Dust Suppression (2018 Winner)
Simon Burnett, Development Mechanical Coordinator, AngloAmerican – Grasstree Mine
Industry Sharing with Industry
In continuing with the desire from industry to share in key learnings from site-related incidents and following on ...
Viljoen- An Industry Without Fatalities
Natascha Viljoen Group Head of Processing, Anglo American Natascha is responsible for Group Processing, a ...

Page 14 of 25