Real security requires custom rules

Compliance with government regulations alone is not enough, Franco Verberkt, manager of product innovation & training at BHV.NL knows from experience. A safe construction site requires a customized approach with regular training and exercises.

Government safety regulations provide a foundation, but in practice prove insufficient to guarantee safety on the shop floor. "True safety is not created by requiring FAFS officers, shift supervisors and prevention workers to comply with government regulations. It requires professional risk thinking," Verberkt says. With risk analyses, modular safety training and exercises, BHV.NL offers companies support in the practical implementation of an optimal safety policy.

Risk Thinking

This practical implementation begins with thinking from a different perspective, namely risk thinking. BHV.NL's safety experts first examine where there are risks within the company. Where are the danger corners? Once these are mapped out, they make a plan to prepare the organization as well as possible for these risks. Then they train the employees to deal with the risky situations as safely as possible.

Modular training courses

Modular safety training is an important part of the safety policy in which BHV.NL assists companies. BHV.NL has gained a lot of experience in this field in a variety of industries. It supplements this knowledge with the information derived from the specific company analysis, allowing it to develop the modular, interactive training courses tailored to that one, specific company. The trainings preferably take place on the shop floor. If that is not possible, they are held in BHV.NL's training rooms, where the work situations are simulated as closely as possible. During the training the professional trainers test for each part whether the participants master the necessary competences and the BHV certificate can be issued.

Anchoring in policy

To maintain knowledge and skills, the FAFS training is followed up by exercises. This way, on the one hand, the material is repeated, and on the other hand, the participants discover whether they can cooperate in a crisis situation. Verberkt: "The exercises are announced, semi-announced or take place totally unexpectedly in cooperation with external emergency services such as ambulances, fire department and police. This creates a continuous process. By embedding the total process in the security policy, security grows within the organization in question."

Awareness

The customized approach, trainings and exercises of BHV.NL provide companies with a well thought-out safety policy. And BHV.NL would not be BHV.NL if it had not also come up with a methodology to continuously draw attention to this policy. With safety games, in which every employee can participate as a team on his smartphone, the continuous state of awareness is created. She also came up with something in the area of SCC. This allows participants to quickly go through the theory in quiz form in their own time and then take the exam on site.

"Companies decide how far their safety ambition goes. Do they apply the safety policy only within the FAFS team? Or do they go for safety awareness within the entire organization? BHV.NL arranges the toolboxes with which they can realize their ambition."