What is behavior-based safety, anyway

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• Personal Author:
  Geller ES
• Description:
  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. [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:
  0362-4064
• 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
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048953
• Citation:
  Occup Health Saf 1997 Jan; 66(1):25-26,28-29,35
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• 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:
  Occupational Health and Safety
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cfc46fd7fde2d6dad8743a9999db1f9e29a42a9156373e02e93fafe10286c2a20916babc7bee45040bc62c0fd47c498def3ea6b9abd6e7858a77af16af99a000
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203565/cdc_203565_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.69 MB ]