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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.