STOP Safety Training Observation

Based on these results, Du Pont refined its approach to safety into its present Safety Training Observation Program (STOP). Du Pont promotes STOP extensively both within and outside the company. STOP involves a process of layered safety audits in which each layer of management conducts a regular safety audit, typically every week. A manager enters an area and finds its superintendent then they conduct a safety audit of that area. On a different week, the superintendent chooses an area supervisor and they conduct a safety audit. Further, all management personnel conduct a formal audit each week in one of the work areas for which they are responsible while also conducting informal observations of both safety practices and safe work conditions at all times. 

Before application lots of preparation work must be done. It includes establishing organization and work scheme, setting down observation Rota, organizing safety training class and compiling STOP courseware. 

Du Pont STOP. One popular behavior-based safety intervention is Du Font s STOP (for Safety Training and Observation Program). Employees are given STOP cards to record the occurrence of at least one at-risk behavior or work condition each workday, along with their corrective action. At the end of the day the STOP cards are collected, compiled, and recorded in a data log. Sometimes the data are transferred to a display chart or graph for feedback. 

The THIS will focus an employee s attention on these targeted hazards through an intensive 1-hour training program that the safety and loss prevention professional will present, and the basic skills will be provided upon completion of the THIS observation cards. The premise is simple—stop the unsafe act to prevent the accident from happening. 

Basically, through training, employees become adept at safety and health hazards recognition and empowered and encouraged to observe worksite conditions and report violations of other unsafe situations. Employees then record their observations on cards called stop cards, which are collected and given to the safety department for further follow-up, tracking, and corrective action. 

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