Change Safety Culture in Egypt

Introduction:   Egypt''s safety culture is changing towards proactive and behavioral based safety concepts three case studies would be presented. Case 1; Glass factory intervention program. Aim; improvement of knowledge, attitude and practice concerning accidents in the factory. Case 2; BAPETCO Health &Minds best practice. Aim; Improve safety culture and attitude to prevent incidents and all levels of staff and contractors were involved. Case 3; Behavioral Based safety (BBS), Implementation in Rashptco. Aim; Modify behavior of workers to make them work safety, Use behavior as performance measure, Remove barriers and motivates safe behavior.    

Methodology   Case1; Phase1: A preliminary interview questionnaire. Phase 2: Seminars of health education to all workers and mangers (1229). Establishment of new accidents reporting and notification system. Training of the trainer   Case 2; All employees and contractors were trained through 83 workshops in 2008 covering the following topic; Understanding your culture, Risk assessment, Improving for supervision, Driving for excellence, Rule of three, Working safety and Managing rule breading  Case 3;  six pillars program was implemented including: Awareness raising, Measurements of key unsafe behavior, Management commitment, Feedback, Root cause analysis and Ownership.30 training sessions were conducted involving staff and contractors. More than 2000 observations resaved in 2006 were recorded, trended and analyzed.    

Results/discussion  Case 1; incidence rate, frequency and severity rates have decreased from 227.8,94.9, 103.7 to 173.4, 72.2, 14.3 respectively. The direct return on investment after intervention program implementation was 1:5.02.  Case 2; Bapetco staff achieved10.8 million man-hours LTI free on 16/4/2009, Bapetco contractors achieved 5 million man-hours LTI free on 1/2/2009, Human error incidents decreased from 90% to 77.6% through the last three years.  Case 3; Rashptco received a Certificate of Achievement for implementation on effective work based BBS program.