Reinforcement correct behavior

Feedback is knowledge of results. Feedback is an essential ingredient in learning. Instmctors must reinforce correct behavior to greatly enhance knowledge of results. People need to know if they perform tasks correcdy and safely. They also need to know if they perform tasks incorrectly. Safe behavior requires feedback and reinforcement. For example, feedback on wearing of personal protective equipment, a safe behavior, helps gain user cooperation. 

Don t become a hero — Safety supervisors and managers who put out big fires are often showered with praise and recognition for solving the immediate crisis. But the real heroes are the safety managers who practice fire prevention and have few (if any) fires to put out. Make sure you are recognizing and reinforcing the correct behaviors. 

The Power of Reinforcement Positive feedback tends to reinforce safe behavior. This feedback should be confirming, or socially rewarding, between coaches and coworkers. Sarkus notes that confirming feedback should be immediate, frequent, and favorable to be most effective (2001, p. 32). Sarkus recommends consistently confirming in favor of correcting to help coworkers become more committed to safety and less fixated on mere compliance. 

Members of management at all levels consistently address the safety behavior of others by coaching and correcting poor behavior and positively reinforcing good behavior. 

The role of radionuclides as tracer of the chemical transport in river is also reinforced by the fact that each of the U-Th-Ra elements has several isotopes of very different half-lives belonging to the U-Th radioactive series. Thus, these series permit comparison of the behavior of isotopes of the same element which are supposed to have the same chemical properties, but very different lifetimes. These comparisons should be very helpful in constraining time scales of transport in rivers. This was illustrated by Porcelli et al. (2001) who compared ( " Th/ U) and ( °Th/ U) ratios in Kalix river waters and estimated a transit time for Th of 15 10 days in this watershed. The development of such studies in the future should lead to an important progress in understanding and quantifying of transport parameters in surface waters. This information could be crucial for a correct use of U-series radioactive disequilibria measured in river waters to establish weathering budgets at the scale of a watershed. 

In garter snakes Thamnophis sirtalis) a VNO-mediated stimulus can reinforce behavior dried earthworm wash or earthworm bits can be used to reward correct performance in a conditioned response to an arbitrary stimulus, such as dots versus stripes in a Y-maze (Halpern etal., 1985). In red-eared turtles the VNO is considered to involve aqueous chemoreception in water. Salt solutions and soluble vapor substances generated activity in the accessory olfactory bulb (Hatanaka and Hanada, 1987). 

The success of the developed model in predicting uniaxial and equi-biaxi-al stress strain curves correctly emphasizes the role of filler networking in deriving a constitutive material law of reinforced rubbers that covers the deformation behavior up to large strains. Since different deformation modes can be described with a single set of material parameters, the model appears well suited for being implemented into a finite element (FE) code for simulations of three-dimensional, complex deformations of elastomer materials in the quasi-static Emit. 

The term schedule of reinforcement refers to the nature of the rules governing the allocation of consequences for a particular response. Behavioral performance controlled by a schedule of reinforcement is referred to as schedule-controlled operant behavior. These schedules of reinforcement are critical because they govern the rate and pattern of responding in time which underlie other behavioral functions. For example, the rate of learning may well be influenced by the underlying schedule of reinforcement. If reinforcement of the correct response during... 

After initial shaping to press the correct lever for food reinforcement, rats are trained to achieve a stable baseline of operant behavior on the predetermined reinforcement schedule (70). 

Log auditing — A driver consistently submits records-of-duty status rife with 11, 14, and 70 hour violations. However, your log auditing process only identifies the violations. Feedback is not communicated to the driver or his dispatcher. The driver does not receive corrective action and/or refresher hours-of-service training. Since behavior that is reinforced tends to continue, the driver s logging behavior goes unchanged. 

The primary purpose of a job safety observation (JSO) is to help each employee become willing to follow safe job procedures. When finding violations and unsafe practices, the object is not merely to stop the employee from continuing this behavior, but to get all employees to follow procedures and to remain productive and cooperative. Safety observation enables the supervisor to evaluate all aspects of an employee s performance on a specific job. An observation that reveals an acceptable performance level provides an opportunity to give praise and reinforce good performance. A safety observation of substandard performance provides an opportunity to take corrective action before unnecessary problems or losses occur. 

Consider a real-world indication of how an organization s culture is translated into a system of expected behavior. Previous to making a presentation on avoiding serious injuries and fatalities, I asked that serious injury reports be sent to me, from which I selected six for discussion. Mostly, the causal factors in those reports focused on the unsafe acts of employees, and training, further education, and reinforcing employee safe practice rules was the corrective action. 

What added social consequences support the desired and undesired behavior (Consider both reinforcement and punishment.) Do supervisors and others routinely provide corrective action for employees who engage in the unsafe act Do supervisors and others routinely provide positive feedback for the safe act ... 

After people know what to do, then they need to perform the behavior correctly many times before it can become a productive habit. Therefore, the positive reinforcement we give people for their safety-related behavior can go a long way toward facflitating fluency and a transition to the automatic or habit stage. Such supportive intervention is often most powerful when it comes from one s peers. 

Prevent injuries and property loss Reinforce positive safety behavior Elevate safety awareness Estabhsh safety standards Test understanding of standards Test compliance with standards Identify weaknesses within the safety system Correct unsafe situations Motivate people. 

Meaningful Action Providing positive reinforcement for, or aiming at improving or correcting, employee behavior. 

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