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What is behavior-based safety, anyway?

Geller ES

Occup Health Saf 1997 Jan; 66(1):25-26,28-29,35

http://ohsonline.com/issues/issue-archive.aspx

20048953

There is much confusion among safety professionals regarding the meaning of behavior-based safety. Behavior-based safety is not a tool, but an approach toward cultivating an injury-free culture. It can be used to derive effective injury-prevention procedures, processes, and tools. The principles of behavior-based safety can be used to develop numerous tools. For example, the behavior-based approach to safety has proven effective when applied to injury investigation, education and training, ergonomics, evaluation, and the development of incentive/reward programs. Each of these successful applications of behavior-based safety adheres to 7 key principles. These principles, which should serve as guidelines when developing a behavior-based tool for safety management, are described.

Behavior; Behavior-patterns; Safety-education; Safety-practices; Safety-programs; Injury-prevention; Work-practices; Worker-motivation; Occupational-safety-programs; Workplace-monitoring; Risk-factors

OHSADQ

19970101

Journal Article

Grant

1997

Grant-Number-R01-OH-003374

1

0362-4064

Occupational Health and Safety

VA

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia