DynMcDermott's Behavioral Process

Rather than reinventing the wheel, DM uses the model developed by Behavioral Science Technology, Inc. (BST) to gather behavioral risk data (at the employee level) and to provide employee feedback, which in turn allows continuous reduction of injury risk. Because different processes, systems, and workers characterize each DM site, each one having a unique set of issues contributing to its safety culture, identifying the right issues is essential to successfully tracking and documenting efforts to manage safety-related behavior. Because of this, Dyn-McDermott's Behavioral Safety Steering Committees (one for each site) have written site-specific safety definitions that were derived from a number of actual incidents/accidents that occurred within the areas respectively. Additionally, Steering Committees are provided with training and oversight by New Orleans Safety through internal consultants, sponsored by site managers, and advised by key site personnel such as from ES&H. The committees are responsible for using the data gathered to continuously reduce at-risk behaviors, and forconducting those activities necessary to administer the process, including:

• regular meetings,



• ongoing observations, and



• coaching of observers.

Progress is reported at the monthly Site Safety Council meetings. The growth of theprocess is shown by the observation rate (see Figure 1), which is once again on the upswing thanks to the efforts of the new committee members. In addition to reducing therisk of injury, the Employee Behavioral Safety Process is the employee participation portion of the DOE Integrated Safety Management Program, the new DM Ergonomics Program, and satisfies several OSHA requirements for documented employee involvement. This is good business because it saves DM from having to establish separate committees and teams for each of these requirements.