Behavioral safety implementation stages

In the safety production management system construction and implementation stage, through various forms of publicity and education, formed advanced safety production management philosophy, enhanced employee safety ideology, improved the safety production management personnel perform their duties sense of responsibility, developed a staff safe and civilized behavior, effectively reduced the person s unsafe behavior. 

The role of management in support of behavioral safety changes over time. The first step for management is to decide to implement behavioral safety and commit the resources to support the planning and implementation. A common mistake at this stage is underestimating the resource requirements. Management needs to... 

Why did it take me so long to get here—to the implementation stage Indeed, if you are looking for "quick-fix" tools to make a difference in safety you may have skipped or skimmed the first two parts of this text and started your careful reading here. I certainly appreciate that the pressures to get to the bottom line quickly are tremendous, but, remember, there is no quick fix for safety. The behavior-based approach that is the heart of this book is the most efficient and effective route to achieving a Total Safety Culture. It is a never ending continuous improvement process, one that requires ongoing and comprehensive involvement from the people protected by the process. In industry, these are the operators or line workers. 

The CBC examples described previously illustrate two basic ways of implementing the Define and Observe stages of DO IT. The driving CBC I developed with my daughter illustrates the observation and feedback process recommended by a number of successful behavior-based safety consultants (Krause, 1995 Krause et al., 1996 McSween, 1995). I refer to this approach as one-to-one safety coaching because it involves an observer using a CBC to provide instructive behavioral feedback to another person (Geller, 1995,1998). 

In this chapter we have gotten into the "nuts and bolts" of implementing a behavior-based safety process to develop a Total Safety Culture. The overall process is referred to as DO IT, each letter representing one of the four stages of behavior-based safety. This chapter focused on the first two stages—Define and Observe. 

Over time and through building trust, a short CBC can be readily expanded and lead to one-on-one safety coaching. Safety coaching is one very effective way to implement each stage of the DO IT process and is detailed in Chapter 12. First, it is important to understand how the first two stages of DO IT can facilitate a proper behavioral analysis of the situation. 

The best advice I can give any team for maintaining interest in their mission statement and its relevant applications is to follow the four stages illustrated previously. Regardless of your team mission, you need to plan or develop an action plan, implement your plan throughout the workplace, evaluate the effects of your efforts, and then use information from the evaluation to refine an improved application. This is, in fact, a basic principle of behavior-based safety, incorporated in the DO IT process introduced in Chapter 8. It is key to learning from research. 

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