4. intro to behavior-based safety
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Behavior Based SafetySafety
Activities
Fewer at-risk
Behaviors
Fewer
Accidents
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How Does This
Take Shape?
Introduction
Assess/ Initial Awareness
Train Management / Steering Committee
Develop Critical Behavior InventoryCommunicate with Workforce
Train Observers
Kickoff
Ongoing Observation & Feedback
Data Based Action Plan
Process Improvement
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Necessary for
ImplementationManagement support
Employee Trust
Financial support (time away from
production activities)
Time and more Time
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An excellent tool for collecting data on the quality
of a companys safety management system
A scientific way to understand why people behave
the way they do when it comes to safety
Properly applied, an effective next step towards
creating a truly pro-active safety culture where
loss prevention is a core value
Conceptually easy to understand but often hard to
implement and sustain
Behavior Based Safety: What Is It?
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Only about observation and feedback
Concerned only about the behaviors of line employees
A substitution for traditional risk management techniques
About cheating & manipulating people & aversive control
A focus on incident rates without a focus on behavior
A process that does not need employee involvement
Behavior Based Safety: What It Is Not?
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What Behavior-based
is...Safe People vs
Safe Places
Injuries Equal
Management Errors
Behavior
ManagementMeasure Behaviors
vs Results
Observation &
Feedback
Positive
Reinforcement
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Activators (what needs to be done) Competencies (how it needs to be done) Consequences (what happens if it is done)
Human Behavior is a function of :
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Human behavior is both:
Observable
Measurable
thereforeBehavior can be managed !
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PhysicalCapabilities
TrainingExperience
The person components consist of the following:
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Attitudes
Are inside a persons head -
therefore they are notobservable ormeasurable
Attitudes can be changed bychanging behaviors
however
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Attitudes represent our covert feelings of
favorability or unfavorability toward an
object, person, issue, etc.
Attitude developed over
time by being exposed tothe object directly
(experience)or through
receiving information
about the object (training).
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Experience
People often behave unsafely because they have never
been hurt before while doing their job in an unsafe
way: 'I've always done the job this way'being a familiarcomment. This may well be true, but the potential for
an accident is never far away.