Behaviour Audit

My area uses data from incident reviews to focus the Behaviour audits on topics of concern... 

Kim, U., and Falkenbury, J. (1996) Environmental and Safety Auditing Program Strategies for Legal, International and Financial Issues, Science Behaviour Books. 

There has been little study of the olfactory abilities of the great apes. Olfactory stimuli play an important role in guiding behaviour in many species (Stod-dart 1980). In the great apes, however, the role of olfaction has been questioned due to the perceived primacy of vision and audition in influencing behaviour (King and Forbes 1974 Dominy, Ross and Smith 2004). This has led to the label of micros-matic being applied to the apes. For most vertebrates, e.g. the dog, there is much evidence of the importance of olfaction in behaviour, and these species are termed macrosmatic (Smith and Bhatnagar 2004). 

Malde, B. (1992), What Price Usability Audits The Introduction of Electronic Mail into a User Organization, Behaviour and Information Technology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 345-353. 

Similar standards of excellence should be the aim in health and safety since the attitudes and procedures are identical, namely clear specification, audit and report back, monitor to identify and correct deviations in materials, behaviour and systems, sample checks and training. Where QA schemes exist or are being implemented, not only should the quality of the product improve but so too should the standards of safety and health. 

The management of risk is a strategic approach to health and safety that organisations must adopt in order to control the hazards that employees, contractors, community residents and others are exposed to. It requires more than just a focus on the hazard itself. The control of hazards requires organisational and administrative processes in order to be effective. Those processes need to be in place to influence the behaviours of directors, managers, supervisors and employees so that harm does not occur. They should also be bound together by a policy and their effectiveness established by measurement, review and audit. A structure to accommodate these processes is necessary if the risks from hazards are to be controlled. Its success is demonstrated when the hazard has been eliminated. Elimination is the first step in the risk control hierarchy. 

The observers audit the work area recording the number of safety critical behavioins observed and the ninnber of unsafe behaviours observed to produce a percentage safe behaviour score as follows ... 

The strength of the process is more than an analysis of actions in the workplace and observations of activity. It works best where the employees take a leading role in managing and implementing it. Employees thus undertake the analysis of behaviours, add the consequences necessary to achieve the safe behaviours and subsequently audit each other. By this means greater commitment to improving safety occurs. In addition the workgroup often know how a job is actually done (as opposed to what the... 

Consistency of behaviour against agreed standards should be achieved by auditing and good safety bdhaviour should be a condition of employment. 

These aberrant behaviours and actions are insidious and, if not detected and trapped through a robust safety and quality audit regimen, become unofficially sanctioned procedures. Diane Vaughan (19%), in her definitive woik on the loss of the space shuttle Challenger referred to this as the normalisation of deviance . 

Codes of practise should be established to guide the behaviour of certification bodies finding non-conformities with the legislation during audit or control visits. 

Active monitoring systems (see Chapter 6) will enable instances of breaches in safety rules. Particularly effective formal active monitoring systems include safety tours, inspections and workplace audits. Less formal but none the less relevant are those occasions when observing behaviour in the workplace occurs as a result of visiting the workplace for other reasons, for example quality control or welfare. 

Schools need to have time to plan, research and audit current practice in order to start to write behaviour policies. Involve governors where possible... 

Audit the different types of behaviours that pupils present. A behaviour database could be used, such as Sleuth www.schoolsoftwarecompany.com or a customised database from the behaviour support services in your local area. These databases will give information on frequency and types of behaviour which will allow schools to plan and deploy their... 

The key objectives of the BIP are around the provision of full-time provision for excluded pupils, an audited and struaured approach to managing behaviour in schools, reduction of tmancy and the appointment of additional staff, particularly those from multidisciplinary backgrounds, to work in innovative ways to support vulnerable pupils and their families. 

Behaviour and attendance in-depth audit for primary schools - emotional health and well-being (DfES)... 

The behaviour and attendance strategy has a number of good behaviour whole-school audits which have been used by schools in conjunction with the behaviour and attendance consultants. 

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