Safety improvement intervention design

That is why throughout this Handbook I have presented theory and principles from psychological research to help you design safety-improvement interventions. The successful applications of these principles that I have described in brief case studies are not intended as step-by-step procedures to follow but, rather, examples to consider when customizing a process for your culture. 

Hale A, Kirwan B, Kjellen U (2007) Safe by design where are we now Saf Sci 45 305-327 Hale AR, Guldenmund FW, van Loenhout PLCH, Oh JIH (2010) Evaluating safety management and culture interventions to improve safety effective intervention strategies. Saf Sci (48) 8 1026-1035... 

In Chapter 9,1 showed how the Activator-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) model can be used to diagnose the contributing factors to an incident or at-risk behavior and to decide on a plan for corrective action. With this chapter, we begin our discussion of intervention design and implementation to improve safety-related behavior. As such, the ABC model is used as introduced in Chapter 8—-as a framework for designing behavior-change interventions. 

This Handbook summarizes principles for understanding the human dynamics of safety. When you use these principles to design, execute, evaluate, and continuously improve interventions to improve safety-related behaviors and attitudes, you are well on your way to achieving a Total Safety Culture. 

Chapter 9 Caring for patients harmed by treatment, 171 Chapter 10 Supporting staff after serious incidents, 192 SECTION FIVE Design, Technology and Standardization Chapter 11 Clinical interventions and process improvement, 211 Chapter 12 Design for patient safety, 230 Chapter 13 Using information technology to reduce error, 246... 

Tompa, Emile, A. J. Culyer, and Roman Dolinschi, eds. Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Occupational Hecdth and Safety Devdoping Good Practice. New fork Oxford University Press, 2008. Examines ways to evaluate and assess the economic impact of programs designed to improve occupational health and safely. 

In conventional systems the design criteria, stated to improve the reliability, usually penalized the system availability. In addition to the obvious economical effect due to undesired plant outages, the high probability to have spurious actuation had a negative impact on safety as an intervention of the safety systems must always be considered as an undesired challenge to the plant. 

In the majority of situations, if a motor carrier is experiencing a minor problem that does not result in a deficient BASIC score, the motor carrier will not receive an intervention. The interventions in the CSA are designed to assist motor carriers and drivers in improving their safety performance. 

Consider technology and the human interface when designing processes. Study history to ensure that patient safety continues to improve over time. Statistics can help measure the impact of interventions or innovations. Continuous improvement processes shift focus from an individual to a team. 

In April and August of 1995, 1 had the pleasure of working with a panel of evaluation experts to develop a set of measurement guidelines for the National Safety Council and the Centers for Disease Control. Our mission was to develop a handbook of practical guidelines that field personnel can use to evaluate the impact of an intervention to improve safety on family and commercial farms. The results of our four days of deliberations are documented in Steel (1996), which includes useful insight and direction for the design of evaluation procedures. 

Return period can also be used for the assessment of structural capacity and vulnerability of a structure in order to design proper mitigation measures. In other words, it can be used to quantify the safety levels and structural deficiencies in a more straightforward manner and to assess the improvement of structural performance after certain retrofitting interventions. For this purpose, Raffaele and Fiore (2013) presented a simple methodology (based on the reverse application of the well-known N2 method) that allows the assessment of the return period when the elastic period and the capacity of the examined structure for a given limit state are available. Subsequently, this so-called capacitive return period can be used to determine the seismic capacity and the reference life for any limit state considered. 

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