Current Issues in Behavior-Based Safety - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966756908 ISBN 13: 9780966756906

Publisher: Behavioral Science Technology Inc, 1999

Synopsis

7" X 10" (w X h) trade softcover book. Contains 22 chapters and four case histories: Phillips Petroleum, Weyerhaeuser, Potlatch, and Shell Oil.

About this title

About the Author

The 12 authors of the chapters of this book have decades of experience in industrial safety and health.

From the Back Cover

As of mid-1999, BST's Behavioral Accident Prevention Process(r) technology has been implemented at over 950 sites worldwide. While most of those implementations are in manufacturing settings, Behavior-Based Safety is also being used to good effect by transportation, construction, and retail organizations, and in offices, laboratories, and hospitals.

The growing popularity of Behavior-Based Safety has raised questions about the best way to integrate this approach with existing safety measures. Under the five headings listed below, this book addresses numerous current issues, including the relation of Behavior-Based Safety to incident investigations, safety measurement, and to the hierarchy of safety and health controls.

Part One - A Shared Vision
Continuous improvement starts with a vision. At organizations committed to continuous improvement, personnel have the strong sense that this goal is within their grasp.

Part Two - Cultural Alignment
The second element of continuous improvement is cultural alignment. In organizations that are aligned for safety excellence, there is consistency between vision and conduct, because personnel at all levels "walk the talk."

Part Three - Focus on Behavior
The third element of continuous improvement is a focus on behavior versus incidents. Organizations with a behavior-based focus make system improvements that continuously reduce exposure to injury.

Part Four - Upstream Systems
The fourth element involves establishing and maintaining upstream systems that allow personnel at all levels to manage safety performance in advance of any injuries.

Part Five - Feedback is the Norm
Feedback is the norm at organizations committed to continuous improvement. Whether corrective or positive, safety performance feedback is valued. It flows freely throughout all levels of the organization.

The chapters of this book were developed by the BST team in hundreds of conference and training sessions with safety professionals, managers, and wage-roll personnel from companies across all industries and regions of the US and Canada, and in the UK, France, Mexico, Jamaica, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and the Philippines.

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Preface by Tom Krause, CEO of BST

The chapters of this volume are based on a subset of the articles and presentations that BST personnel have published since the mid-1990s. Throughout those years behavior-based safety has been a field of dynamic growth. This growth is indicated by the large number of companies now using behavior-based safety, a growth matched by our commitment to the continuing improvement in the state of the art of this approach to accident prevention. We found that as the sheer number of sites working with us rose into the hundreds, new qualitative issues also arose, issues such as:
- What is the best way to extend behavior-based safety beyond its early base in manufacturing to industries such as construction, retail, and hospitals, and furthermore to offices and laboratories?
- In any of these settings what is the best way to involve managers and supervisors in behavior-based safety?
- Across industries, regions, and even nations, what are the critical success factors for behavior-based safety?

In addition to those operational questions about best practices, there were new questions that had to do with the "care of the field" itself, questions such as:
- What is the best way to open a more vital dialogue with labor unions about behavior-based safety?
- And, as behavior-based safety continues to gain momentum and adherents, what is the best way to protect it from being watered down into the latest management buzzword, magic bullet, or fad?

Since continuous improvement is itself an ongoing process, this book does not offer final answers to these questions. Instead we offer this volume as our latest, best effort at achieving and communicating clarity about current issues in behavior-based safety. As a team we know firsthand both the difficulty and exhilaration of gaining even an inch of ground in this very demanding and crucial field of industrial and business safety. As a consulting organization we feel privileged to work with the leading companies who are making safety improvement a reality at hundreds of worksites around the world. It is our sincere hope that this book may contribute to serious and informed discussion of the issues it raises and addresses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Behavioral Science Technology Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966756908
• ISBN 13: 9780966756906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Krause Thomas R.