Total Safety Culture evaluation procedures

The third new E word essential to achieving a Total Safety Culture is evaluation. Without appropriate feedback or evaluation, practice does nof make perfect. Thus, we need the right kind of evaluation processes. Lafer in fhis book, especially Chapter 15,1 detail procedures for conducting fhe righf kind of comprehensive evaluation. Right now, what is important to understand is that some traditional methods of evaluation actually decrease or stifle empowermenf. This calls for changing some safefy measurement paradigms. 

The shift in how paradigm is commonly defined does contain an important lesson. When we adopt and use new definitions, our mindset or perception changes. In other words, as I indicated in the previous chapter, we act ourselves into a new way of thinking or perceiving. This is a primary theme of this book. When employees get involved in more effective procedures to control safety, they develop a more constructive and optimistic attitude toward safety and the achievement of a Total Safety Culture. Let us consider the shifts in principles, procedures, beliefs, attitudes, or perceptions needed for the three new Es—ergonomics, empowerment, and evaluation—and for achieving a Total Safety Culture. 

Consequences motivate behavior and related attitudes. This happens in various ways. Consequences can be positive or negative, intrinsic (natural) or extrinsic (extra) to a task, and internal or external to a person. These characteristics need to be considered when designing and evaluating intervention programs. This chapter explains why and provides principles arid practical procedures for motivating people to work safely over the long term. In other words, I shall show you how to influence behavior and attitudes so that both are consistent with a Total Safety Culture. 

This demonstration has profoxmd lessons for achieving a Total Safety Culture. As I have discussed earlier, the typical evaluation procedure used by both the government and private sector to judge the safety record of companies is based on organizational or system performance—"fhe fofal recordable injury rate" or number of "OSHA recordables"— xmconfrollable by mosf individual workers. 

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