Safety self-management: a key behavior-based process for injury prevention

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• Personal Author:
  Clarke SW ; Geller ES
• Description:
  Safety self-management means taking personal responsibility for doing the right things to prevent injury. When working alone, with no one to hold a person accountable, does s/he choose the safe behavior or a more convenient at-risk behavior? In other words, does the individual take a calculated risk? Safety self-management techniques can help a person choose the safe way consistently. Deciding to use these techniques requires commitment and personal accountability. Unfortunately, not everyone feels personal responsibility for safety. Self-management only works for behaviors that arc self-directed; for some people, safety-related behaviors are only other-directed. Therefore, safety professionals must help employees transition from other-directed to self-directed behaviors in order to improve industrial safety. This article has reviewed seven self-management intervention strategies that are applicable individually or in combination to improve safety-related behaviors. 1) Manage environmental activators or conditions antecedent to a target behavior. 2) Develop and use self-statements to encourage desired behavior. 3) Use mental imagery to direct and motivate target behaviors. 4) Administer self-rewards strategically to support desired behaviors. 5) Set SMART goals regarding both the completion of certain self-management techniques and the achievement of a certain level of behavioral improvement. 6) Make an explicit voluntary commitment to complete a self-improvement project and/ or to reach a designated level of behavioral improvement. 7) Enlist the support of colleagues. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Behavior-patterns Injury-prevention Occupational-safety-programs Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-programs Work-practices Worker-motivation Workplace-monitoring
• ISSN:
  0099-0027
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  29-33
• Volume:
  44
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048946
• Citation:
  Prof Saf 1999 Jul; 44(7):29-33
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19960201
• Source Full Name:
  Professional Safety
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203560/cdc_203560_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 14.22 MB ]