Human behavior enforcement

Traffic Safety and Human Behavior Enforcement of DUID... 

The Three Es of Safety Another concept for accident prevention builds on the Three Es of Safety. The three Es are engineering, education, and enforcement. This approach links to the idea presented earlier that unsafe acts and unsafe conditions result in accidents. Figure 3-4 shows how the three Es links to that idea. Engineering primarily seeks to prevent unsafe conditions. Engineering can also deal with unsafe acts. Later chapters will cover ergonomics and human behavior as part of safety engineering. 

Shinar, D. and A. J. McKnight (1986). The combined effects of enforcement and public information campaigns on compliance. In Human Behavior and Traffic Safety (L. Evans and R. Schwing eds.). Plenum Press, New York. 

First, the modem lawn cannot be an expression of culture outside of a political and economic history in which property, citizenship, and proper consumer behavior are conjoined. Second, lawns (although not necessarily grasses) must at some level require the inputs invested in them by people, and these demands must enforce human practices and behaviors. Third, chemicals for lawns must also represent real problems, ones bom of a risk society where hazards and... 

Humans and organizations can adapt and still maintain safety as long as they stay within the area bounded by safety constraints. But in the search for optimal operations, humans and organizations will close in on and explore the boundaries of established practice. Such exploration implies the risk of occasionally crossing the limits of safe practice unless the constraints on safe behavior are enforced. 

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Recent literature has focused on prevention and early intervention efforts in promoting school safety. In fact, programs have been developed, such as the Safe Schools/ Healthy Students Initiative, funded by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Justice, to provide programs to school districts at the prevention, early intervention, and treatment levels to address social, behavioral, and mental health issues in cooperation with community partners and law enforcement agencies (U.S. Department of Education, 1999 Thornton et al, 2000). 

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