Success Factors for Behavioral Safety

For a successful behavioral safety effort, numerous factors must work together in harmony. Ultimately, the key to safety success lies with management. The following are essential features of the behavioral safety process  

Experience and research verify the potency of behavioral safety. According to McSween, research findings demonstrate the value of behavioral safety  

The only empirical approach to improving safety that has proven to be effective is a behavioral safety process. Behavioral safety is the only approach that has routinely produced significant reductions in incidents in well-designed research studies. The approach involves employees using a systematically developed checklist as the basis for feedback on critical safety practices observed in work areas (1998, p. 49). 

Why should people view safety as a process rather than a program  

Describe some ways to get employees to develop ownership in workplace safety. 

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List and explain five critical success factors for behavioral safety. 

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