Process Fundamentals
What is Behavior-based Safety?
Behavior-based Safety is a method to use positive reinforcement to change unsafe behavior. The system:
- Is employee-based for continuous improvement.
- Analyzes tasks and hazards to identify critical safety behaviors.
- Analyzes behavior based on job observation.
- Uses feedback about safety performance as reinforcement.
Behavior-based Safety Principles
- Behavior is the cause of accidents.
- Consequences motivate behavior.
- What gets measured gets done.
- Feedback is essential to improvement.
- Quality is built-in early in the process.
- Conversations change organizations.
Behavior-based Safety and Integrated Safety Management
Is Behavioral Safety the Missing Piece of ISMS?
The Behavior-based Safety Process is an integral component of the Integrated Safety
Management System (ISMS) and is consistent with
the five ISMS core functions as follows:
| ISMS
Core Function |
BBS
Process Element |
| Define
the Scope of Work |
Define
the scope of the effort and personnel involved |
| Analyze
the Hazards |
Analyze
the hazardous behaviors to identify critical safety acts
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| Develop
and Implement Hazard Controls |
Develop
critical safety behavior checklists and behavioral observation methods
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| Perform
Work Within Controls |
Train
workers/observers; establish safe acts baseline behavior; begin
observation and calculation of the percentage of safe acts
|
| Provide
Feedback and Continuous Improvement |
Provide
feedback to workers and observe improvement in the percentage of
safe acts and other measures (OSHA) |
|
Behavior-based
Safety and the Voluntary Protection Program
The
Department of Energy Voluntary Protection Program (DOE-VPP) recognizes
and promotes safety and health program excellence based on management
leadership, employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention
and control, and safety and health training. DOE-VPP participants
as well as potential applicants can integrate behavior-based safety
(BBS) into the site Voluntary Protection Program to help change
unsafe and at-risk behaviors of employees and improve their safety
and health programs. BBS can be implemented through the use of
several methods, such as employee observation and feedback programs
to identify critical safety behaviors, training, positive reinforcement,
and performance feedback and measurement.
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Asked Questions
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This page was last updated on April 08, 2009
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