Unsafe behavior

I.I. The Traditional Safety Engineering (TSE) View The traditional safety engineering view is the most commonly held of these models in the CPI (and most other industries). As discussed in Chapter 1, this view assumes that human error is primarily controllable by the individual, in that people can choose to behave safely or otherwise. Unsafe behavior is assumed to be due to carelessness, negligence, and to the deliberate breaking of operating rules and procedures designed to protect the individual and the system from known risks. 

Other Process Safety Factors, e.g.. Equipment Selection, Engineering Design, Specification of Inspection Frequency and Technique, Unsafe Behaviors and Insufficient Operating Discipline. 

Serious process safety incidents involving loss of life, serious injury, or property damage are often preceded by multiple less-serious incidents or near misses as well as recurring unsafe behaviors or insufficient operating discipline. Process safety metrics are established, collected, and acted upon to help companies and... 

In addition to differentiating among the severity of a metric (incident, near miss, unsafe behavior), a metric can track activities (whether an action occurs) as well as the outcome (the quality or performance) of the action. 

Plant safety is an important application area for G2. Many of the early installations are for chemical and nuclear safety purposes. Of course, plants are already provided with extensive alarming and other safety related equipment. G2 does not replace any of this - it is used to add another intelligent observer of the plant operation - an observer that watches thousands of variables with tireless attention, applies knowledge of expected behavior and interactions, and indicates to the operator an intelligent description of unexpected or unsafe behavior. It is questionable whether a plant should be run without such an observer. 

Other hazards, such as wet working surfaces, unguarded floor openings, job stress, and the unsafe behavior of others... 

A major deficiency in machinery design is the lack of adequate feedback to the machine operator about the machine action, especially at the point of operation. Such feedback is often difficult to provide because there typically are no sensors at the point of operation (or other areas) to determine when such action has taken place. However, an operator should have some information about the results of the actuation of controls to be able to perform effectively. Operators may commit unsafe behaviors to gain some feedback about the machine s performance as the machine is operating that may put them in contact with the point of operation. To avoid this, machinery design should include feedback of operation. The more closely this feedback reflects the timing and action of the machinery, the greater the amount of control that can be exercised by the operator. The feedback should be displayed in a convenient location for the operator at a distance that allows for easy readability. 

Supervisors interactions with new employees, what might be terms their leadership style, will play an important role in the establishment of tmst-relationships. Evidence is mounting that a transformational leadership style, where leaders develop affective bonds with their employees will help facilitate tmst development and positively influence safety (Conchie 2013), as well as positively influence performance outcomes (Schaubroeck et al. 2011). Supervisors should of course develop a safety-specific tmst relationship with a new employee based on evidence from their behavior, not based on assumptions. While supervisors may be somewhat insulated from the adverse impact of new employee s behavior, they should consider new employees as potential sources of safety risk until proven otherwise. Co-workers are likely to be the most vulnerable in terms of the impact of unsafe behavior from new employees. Thus from the perspective of co-workers, it is advisable to be careful and ensure that any tmst which is given to a new employee is deserved. 

It has been general agreement among researchers, and industry that individual (staff) unsafe behavior (act) is the elementary level in event (accident)-chain modeling, no matter in a simple system or in a sophisticated socio-technical system (Leveson, 2004). Thus, study on behavior safety is worthwhile. The accident-cause analysis is ranged in individual scope, i.e. not go further to organizational cause, which is addressed as the common cause of accident (see Fig. 1). 

That is issue of the effectiveness evaluation. As mentioned above, the compliance behavior (and/ or intent) is defined as the chief indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of warning sign in the article. The effectiveness is attributed to comphance behavior, because the comphance is in conformity with the idea of behavior control and behavior safety science, in which unsafe behavior contributes to almost all accident. That means, if people behave according to the correct directives and rules (warning sign), accident and loss can be prevented and reduced to a large degree. The function process of compliance is shown in Fig.3. 

People s unsafe behavior and unsafe state of object is the direct cause of accident, in which the unsafe behavior of the people is the most important reason, because most of the accidents are caused by human error. The key to create a safe atmosphere is to manage people, educate people, inspire people, and let the staff form strong safety awareness in the influence by environment, to achieve fundamental change from want me to be safe to I want security. ... 

ABSTRACT Miners unsafe behavior is due to human unsafe behavior and interaction of matter produced unsafe behavior. In this paper, the assignment method for column joint analysis of the questionnaire drawn the safety of workers and trade unions act age, educational level, personality traits, work experience and their sense of safety has correlation with the risk of the work environment to develop codes of conduct and corporate science-related, propose appropriate measures to tackle the problem. 

Theoretical study leading causes of casualties have been one hundred years of history. With the development of productive forces, changes in production methods, production relations, as reflected in the existence of differences in security perceptions. More research scholars tend to study the accident causation studies, the occurrence of the accident was due to human factors and physical factors trajectory of the intersection of the accident is the intersection of time and space. Meanwhile, track crossover theory as accident causation theory, emphasizing the human factor and physical factors occupy the same important position. So, in order to effectively prevent accidents, people must also take measures to eliminate unsafe behaviors and material insecurity. 

Internal factors affecting the safety of workers and staff are reflected in the underground illegal behavior. It is a concrete manifestation of coal mine workers self-management. As you can see from Figure 1, the incidence of unsafe behavior of most of the employees think it is deliberately risk-taking unconscious behavior and convenience. 

ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE UNSAFE BEHAVIOR OF COAL MINE STAFF OUTSIDE... 

Safety behavior science is an important branch of behavior science, which is the application of behavior science in the field of work safety, and is an applied science which is based on the science of physiology, psychology and sociology. It analyzes, recognizes and studies the factors and mode of influence in human safety behaviors, masters the rules of human behavior, and realizes driving safety behavior and restraining unsafe behavior. The theory of behavior science can be directly applied to the safety behavior science. It however has significant difference. 

In the safety production management system construction and implementation stage, through various forms of publicity and education, formed advanced safety production management philosophy, enhanced employee safety ideology, improved the safety production management personnel perform their duties sense of responsibility, developed a staff safe and civilized behavior, effectively reduced the person s unsafe behavior. 

Chen Hong 2006. The study on unsafe behavior in China s major coal mine accidents. Beijing Science Press. He Xueqiu 2008. Safety Science and Technology. Xuzhou The China University of Mining and Technology Press. 

Statistical parties Caused by unsafe behavior of people Caused by unsafe condition of objects... 

Enterprise should strengthen safety check, correct employees unsafe behaviors promptly. Every employee performs his own functions and regards safety as his own problem, implements the measures and requirements consciously, solves problems existing in work initiatively, form safe habits through preventive management. 

The action principle of safety culture, principle of attitude and behavior and accident triangle principle can explain the action principle zero accident . Improving the safety management system, correcting people s unsafe behavior, controlling near misses and other small incidents are the effective way to achieve zero accidents objective for enterprise. 

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