Associated British Ports has partnered with the University of Hull to delve deeper into the context and drivers impacting safety performance on ABP’s ports.
ABP is working with the team of psychologists at The Centre for Human Factors based in Lampada Digital Solutions, a University of Hull subsidiary, to deliver a survey across all ABP’s 21 ports plus the group’s other locations utilizing a diagnostic safety climate tool designed to help organizations assess and improve their safety culture.
It measures employees’ perceptions of safety in the workplace, focusing on areas such as organizational commitment and usability of procedures.
The survey adopts the best practice approach from the Health and Safety Executive.
Professor Fiona Earle, Chartered Occupational Psychologist & Director of the Centre for Human Factors, commented tha the focus at the Centre is on creating healthier and safer working environments and this collaboration is already well underway as they analyze survey results from 21 UK ports and explore emerging issues facing the business.
Fiona and Dr Léa Fréour will also be undertaking a series of deep dives into key outcomes from the survey, designed to give detail on attitudes and behavior and drive towards actionable insights that ABP can adopt to drive safety performance improvements.
The Centre for Human Factors delivers sector-leading, evidence-based approaches to health, safety, and wellbeing in the workplace, with long-established experience in the field of human factors. This considers how people interact with their working environment and its systems.
As part of its sector-leading network of 21 ports, ABP operates three other ports in the Humber region in addition to Hull—Immingham, Grimsby, and Goole.
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