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Behavior-Based Safety
Published in Debi Prasad Tripathy, Mine Safety Science and Engineering, 2019
Behavior-Based Safety is an approach to safety that focuses on workers’ behavior as the cause of most work-related injuries and illnesses. Promoters of behavior-based safety programs maintain that 80–96% of workplace injuries are caused by workers’ unsafe behavior. If the workers who are behaving “unsafely” are identified, they can be coaxed, cajoled, and/or threatened into behaving “safely” on the job or sacked.
Behavior-Based Safety
Published in W. David Yates, Safety Professional’s Reference and Study Guide, 2020
Each behavior-based safety program has the following elements in common: identify (or target) behaviors that affect safety, define these behaviors precisely enough to measure them reliably, develop and implement mechanisms for measuring those behaviors in order to determine their current status and set reasonable goals, provide feedback, and reinforce progress.
Behavior-Based Safety
Published in W. David Yates, Safety Professional’s, 2015
Each behavior-based safety program has the following elements in common: identify (or target) behaviors that affect safety, define these behaviors precisely enough to measure them reliably, develop and implement mechanisms for measuring those behaviors in order to determine their current status and set reasonable goals, provide feedback, and reinforce progress.
Construction safety performance measurement using a leading indicator-based jobsite safety inspection method: case study of a building construction project
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Kishor Bhagwat, Venkata Santosh Kumar Delhi, Prakash Nanthagopalan
Several methods have been proposed to utilize leading indicators for SPM. While some methods use investigation of near misses, other methods concentrate on behavior-based safety measurement. Further, surveys to understand safety perception and jobsite safety inspection (JSI) were proposed in leading indicator-based SPM methods. A near miss is defined as an unplanned event not resulting in an injury or illness but that has the potential to do so [38]. Chan et al. [39] adopted a near miss method to improve the safety performance of the electrical and mechanical works in repair, maintenance, alteration and addition projects. However, SPM systems based on near miss incidents often lack clarity in defining near miss and reporting issues [29]. The behavior-based safety method follows various steps such as observing employees’ behavior for a certain period (weeks or months), identifying unsafe behaviors, providing feedback and safety intervention strategies to employees, and capturing employees’ behavior again. For example, Lingard and Rowlinson [40] adopted a behavior-based safety method in the Hong Kong construction industry and noticed safety performance enhancement in crucial areas such as site housekeeping. This method provides a detailed investigation into employee behavior but is often labor-intensive and expensive in terms of the time and costs involved [29]. Further, the meticulous observation may capture the workers’ altered behavior due to phenomena like the Hawthorne effect [29]. The safety perception survey method is a widely adopted method to understand construction safety performance. For example, Patel and Jha [15] adopted the safety perception survey method to investigate the determinants of construction safety performance. However, safety perception suffers from problems of biased feedback from workers apart from the complexities involved in the appropriate design of a questionnaire to capture and analyze worker perceptions [29]. Finally, JSI also provides a unique way to capture the assessment of construction safety through an extensive checklist and descriptive assessment [29]. JSI is usually carried out by safety experts to provide a quick way to assess safety, thus helping in framing safety improvement strategies to track performance. However, leading indicator-based JSI is understudied and remains a crucial gap in research on safety measurement utilizing leading indicators. The present study aimed at fulfilling this gap.