Behavior, health/safety

In many parts of the world, the public perceive the chemical industry as polluting and are concerned about the impact of chemical products on health, safety, and the environment [7]. This poor perception has become more significant since the mid-1980s. This is despite the fact that measurable improvements have been achieved in the reduction of emissions. There is thus a link between the public s attitude and their behavior as consumers. A further contributor here is the increase in freedom of environmental information for instance easier access to public registers of pollutants. 

Alcoa Work hard to prevent all accident (Health Safety Overview 2008). 1. HSE rules and criterion. 2. Believe that safety is primarily about cultural change, the ultimate objective is to institutionalize effective safety management. 3. Safety plan and behavior. 4. Indoctrinating culture of zero injuries and illnesses. 

According to Dr. E. Scott Geller, who is often a writer and speaker on behavioral safety, a problem of consequence has arisen because some of those who offer themselves as behavioral consultants don t, in his view, really practice behavior-based safety. Geller, who is a practitioner in worker-focused behavior-based safety, wrote an article titled Confusion, Controversy, and Clarification, which appeared in the Januaiy 1999 issue of Occupational Health Safety. These excerpts from that article pertain to the ASSE conference on behavioral safety held in Febmary 1998. 

Jim Howe is the Assistant Director in the Health and Safety Department at the headquarters of the United Auto Workers Union. Jim is often a speaker on behavioral safety, and he takes a strong position that behavior-based safety can be hazardous to your health and safety program. His views are set forth in A Union Critique of Behavior Based Safety, a paper issued by the UAW Health and Safety Department. 

Behavior-based safety places responsibilities on workers for which they may not be qualified. Although worker involvement is important, it has limitations and is not a substitute for technically competent health and safety experts reviewing both existing and future operations to insure that hazards are identified and controlled. Few workers have been trained in hazard identification, risk evaluation or methods of control (hierarchy) [p. 17]. 

A Union Critique of Behavior-Based Safety, Version 2. Detroit UAW Health and Safety Department, 1998. 

The avoidance of unnecessary risks, and maintaining good health practices. Also includes freedom from substance abnse and other addictions healthy, safe, relational sexual behaviors and an absence of any kind of violence—physical, emotional, sexual, or verbal—including suicidality and self-destructive behavior. Physical safety... 

Geller, E. Scott. Behavior based safety. Occupational Health and Safety. January 1999 40- 9. 

Howes, Jim. Behavior-Based Safety Programs . UAW Health and Safety Department, http //www.ble272.org/ Behaviorbasedsafety.pdf. 

Hazards of Behavior-Based Safety Programs . UFCW http //www.ufcw.org/your industry/retail/safety health news and facts/behavior based.cfm. 

The people side of safety and health is little different from the people side related to any other aspect of life. It is difficult to understand the values and attitudes that workers bring with them to the workplace. Actually, there is little that can be done regarding the values and attitudes that workers bring to the workplace. We can only see their outward behavior regarding safety. Workers safety performances should be observable and measurable. We can and do work with the behaviors that individuals exhibit. 

The positive motivation of each and every employee to work and think safely and in a healthful manner on a daily basis has always been a priority for safety and health professionals. Throughout the decades, safety and health professionals have utilized a number of ideas and incentives through which to achieve this motivational level within their workforce. Due to the relative success of such efforts, commercially available incentive programs are now readily available in a variety of products and price ranges. However, safety and health professionals shonld be aware that incentive programs should not be utilized as a substitute for base-level compliance and behavior-based safety and health programs, and should be utilized for their intended purpose only. Many motivational and incentive-type programs are the ideas of safety and health professionals and are unique to the workforce within their operations. 

Dunlap is a published writer on such topics as Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) compliance. Department of Transportation compliance, behavior-based safety, and organizational safety culture. His work has appeared in Professional Safety, the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, and World Grain Magazine. His most substantial work has been the publication of textbooks on motor carrier safety and auditing. His current research is in the area of industry leader development and involvement in workplace safety leadership. 

Ethical behavior, including client confidentiality, codes of ethics within and outside of engineering societies, anticorruption and the differences between legal requirements and ethical expectations, and the profession s responsibility to hold paramount public health, safety, and welfare. 

Howe, J., Warning, Behavior Based Safety Can Be Hazardous To Your Health And Safety Program , Union of Automotive Worker, International Union, September 1993... 

Peters, R.H. 1995. Encouraging self-protective employee behavior what do we know InProceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Institute of Mining Health, Safety, and Research. Edited by G.R. Tiimer, A. Bacho, and M. Karmis. Blacksburg, VA Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 

Chapter 6—How They Act Behavior-Based Safety—Behavior-based safety has become the new kid on the block. Employers have realized that most accidents/incidents have a human side to them and have begun to address workers behavior in the workplace especially with regard to occupational safety and health. Attanpts are being made by employers and programs to elicit safe and healthy working behaviors by ensuring that these behaviors are recognized and reinforced to reduce or annul incidents of unsafe actions. 

Coverage of behavior-based safety and financing health and safety... 

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