Behavioral Science Technology

Jim Howe, CSP, is the Assistant Director in the Health and Safety Department at the headquarters of the United Auto Workers Union. He and Thomas R. Krause, CEO of Behavioral Science Technology, were to be speakers at the Professional Development Conference to be held in June 2000.1 was to be the moderator. Tom Krause asked for a meeting with Jim Howe and me for a discussion of the program. Scott Stricoff, President of Behavioral Science Technology (BST), also attended. 

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Thomeis R. Krause, Ph.D., is chairman of the board and co-founder of Behavioral Science Technology, Inc. (BST). He is the author of several books, including Leading With Safety, The Behavior-Based Safety Process, and co-author of Taking the Lead in Patient Safety. Tom consults with senior executives on leadership, culture and behavior change in the service of safety improvement. 

Staff at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) have extensive experience in the application of behaviour-based safety systems to the construction industry. In the United States, the work of Dr Thomas Krause and his colleagues at Behavioral Science Technology Inc, California, is particularly well known. It has shown that a behaviour-based approach to health and safety management can be an effective tool for increasing safety on construction sites and elsewhere, despite some practical problems of implementation. 

Behavior Safety (Ojai, CA Behavioral Science Technology, Inc., 1999). 

Thomas R. Krause, "Moving to the Second Generation in Behavior>6ased Safety," Professional Safety, 46 May 2001), pp. 27-32 BST Outcome Study (Ojai, CA Behavioral Science Technologies, 2002) and John H. Hidley, "Critical Success Factors for Behavior-Based Safety," Professional Safety (July 1998) pp. 30-34. 

Behavior-based Safety (BBS) is not new. BBS (much like Heinrichs view) assumes that the majority of injuries and illnesses are the result of unsafe acts by workers. We support this view to a point (it is difficult to argue t ainst those who point out that workers commit unsafe acts), and so do many large companies such as DuPont and Behavior Science Technology (BST), who claim that between 80 percent and 95 percent of all accidents are caused by unsafe behavior. The problem arises, however, when one takes a closer look at everything Heinrich wrote in his classic text. For example, he raised the ugly twin heads of racism and bias when he pointed out that ancestry and social environment are faca ors in every accident. Clearly, this convoluted statement is without merit. 

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