Behavioral-based safety management

Many companies have implemented a system to have peers observe and try to correct the behavior of peers by coaching or other means. This is part of a behavior based safety management system. This system should operate in the nonincident portion of the error pyramid. Include examples in a listing, such as Table 5-1, to illustrate the differences. 

If we will enhance safety culture and standardize employee safety behavior, it cannot leave the application of behavior-based safety management tools. The behavior-based safety management tools are an important means that is to effectively promote the safety culture of enterprise. At present, in SINOPEC comprehensive apvplication of HSE observation tools, its core is to conduct field observation and analysis and communication, to interfere with the way or intervention, make people know the dangers of unsafe behavior, prevent and eliminate imsafe behavior. 

Sun Ai-jun, LIU Mao.The Implementing Predicament of Behavior-based Safety Management Theory and Its Solution[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2009,(09). 

Behavior-based safety management is basically the management of safety taking into account human behaviors. A good example is the supply of protective equipment at or near the point of exposure in order to facilitate the compliance of obtaining and wearing the equipment. Behavior-based safety requires doing behavior observations and performance observations. In lab safety, this means the behavior and performance of the various levels of researcher and teacher. Observation allows you to ... 

Lingard, H., Rowlinson, S. 1998. Behavior-based safety management in Hong Kong s construction industry. Journal of Safety Research 28(4) 243-256. 

We are motivated by consequences, however, so let s consider certain benefits you can expect to gain from a successful behavior-based safety management process as reviewed in this chapter. Since most injuries are caused in part by at-risk behavior, a reduction in at-risk behavior and an increase in safe behavior will lead to injury prevention. However, we d like you to consider five other benefits that result from people contributing interdependently to an effective behavior-based safety process. These outcomes are critically important and relate to much more than safety. In fact, they can benefit every important function of your organization. In explaining these we ll review most of the key psychological principles covered in this chapter. 

Behavior-Based Safety Management Parallels with the Quality Process" "Behavioral Management Techniques for Continuous Improvement"... 

Wang Hanfeng Zhang Bing 2008. Based on behavior control safety management of coal mine[J]. Coal Science and Technology 3(4) 61-64. 

LI Nai-wen, JI Da-jiang. Application Study on Behavior-based Safety in Coal Mine Behavior Management. China Safety Science Journal 2011 (12) 115 121. 

This chapter discusses the nature of culture as it applies to the safety and general risk management of process facilities. Also discussed here are related issues such as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Employee Participation, Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) and Inherent Safety. 

Bottom line pressures, management turnover and good old human nature just about guarantee a steady stream of safety issues to deal with. So the hunt never ends for the next new thing to cure, or at least arrest, those chronic challenges. Behavior-based safety has been the medicine of choice in recent years. But interest shows signs of waning, and the field s experts now prescribe a cocktail mix of behavioral, systems and motivational remedies. 

Aubrey C. Daniels, a well-known and long-term practitioner in the field of performance management, has also expressed concerns about what is being offered as behavioral safety. His paper The Imperative for an Integrated Approach to Behavior-Based Safety Initiatives appears in the Proceedings, ASSE 1999 Professional Development Conference. These are excerpts from it ... 

Simon expressed the view that the culture drives the behavior and that a culture change is required for success in behavior-based safety. A culture assessment (such as the Simon Open System Culture Change Model) measures the culture process and impacts on the whole of operations —the technology, tmst, leadership, symbols of the culture, et cetera. He also advised that before a behavior-based initiative is undertaken, management leadership must have been established. That s implicit. This factor cannot be overlooked. These are excerpts from Simon s paper titled The Culture Change Model of Behavioral Safety ... 

Reynolds, in Back to the Future The Importance of Learning the ABCs of Behavioral Safety, discusses the need to first analyze the management controlled antecedents and consequences that actually drive those employee behaviors (p. 24). Many of the concerns expressed by highly capable safety professionals over the worker-focused behavior-based safety approach center on the fact that causal factors deriving from the work environment and work practices are ignored. Most behavior-safety practitioners do not recognize the need to examine the reasons—the antecedents, if you like — for the existence of hazards and risks. 

Worker-focused behavior-based safety directs efforts to correct worker at-risk behavior. Hardly ever in the relevant literature is there recognition that the antecedents for at-risk behavior should be analyzed to determine their sources. Seldom is there recognition that the antecedents may derive from the work environment created by management—for example, from the design of the work place or the work methods. 

In conversation, Petersen cited examples of managements having abandoned responsibility for safety because of the introduction of a behavior-based safety initiative, with adverse results. Unfortunately, some behavioral safety practitioners have created the impression that behavioral safety is the panacea, the cure for all problems. This is an absolute Superior safety (or quahty) cannot be achieved without management direction, involvement, and accountability. 

Behavior-based safety does not recognize the most effective method of controlling hazards, which is through the application of the hierarchy of controls [p. 7]. (See The Safety Decision Hierarchy in Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs.)... 

Managers and union spokespersons who have not used behavior-based safety are often surprised to hear that one of its primary functions is to find and fix systems barriers to safe work. 

A combination of performance improvement concepts and a particular approach to behavioral safety illustrates an additional change in how behavioral safety is offered and practiced. Aubrey Daniels Associates has been a notable and successftil practitioner in performance improvement for many years. In 2001, the safety aspects of the Aubrey Daniels organization was spun off and became a part of Marsh, Inc. under the leadership of William H. Grimes, Managing Director. Jerry Pounds, a practitioner in behavioral safety and formerly with Aubrey Daniels, has submitted a paper to ASSE for publication consideration, the title of which is Behavior-Based Safety Where Does It Go from Here ... 

Krause, T. Behavior-Based Safety Process Managing Involvement for an Injury-Free Culture. New York Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1999. 

A noted authority on behavior-based safety, E. Scott Geller, identified seven key principles that should serve as guidelines when developing a BBS process or tool for safety management. They are (Geller 1999, 40) ... 

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