Researching Behavior-Bassed Safety: A Multi-Method Assessment and Evaluation

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• Personal Author:
  Boyce TE ; Clark S ; DePasquale J ; Geller ES ; Pettinger C ; Williams J
• Description:
  Behavior-based (BB) approaches to injury prevention have a number of advantages, including: a) they can be administered by individuals with minimal professional training; b) they can reach people in the setting where a problem occurs (e.g., community, school, workplace); and c) the leaders in these settings can be taught the BB techniques most likely to work under specific circumstances (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968, 1987; Daniels, 1989; Geller, 1997). Research has also shown this approach to be cost effective, primarily because BB techniques are straightforward and relatively easy to administer, and because intervention progress can be readily assessed by indigenous personnel monitoring target behaviors (e.g., Daniels, 1989; Geller, 1996; Geller, Winett, & Everett, 1982; Rudd & Geller, 1985; Sulzer-Azaroff & De Santamaria, 1980). Behavior-based approaches to safety focus on systematically studying the effects of various interventions on target behaviors, first by defining the target behavior in a directly observable and recordable way, and second by observing and recording it in its natural setting. When a stable baseline measure of the frequency, rate, or duration of behavior is obtained, an intervention is implemented to change the behavior in beneficial directions. Interventions typically involve modifying or changing the antecedents and/or consequences of specified target behavior(s). To determine intervention effectiveness, the frequency, duration, or rate of the target behavior is recorded during and/or after the intervention and compared to baseline measures of behavior (Daniels, 1989; Geller, 1996, 1997). [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
• Publisher:
  American Society of Safety Engineers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049642
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 37th annual professional development conference of the American Society of Safety Engineers/Canadian Society of Safety Engineering, June 14-17, 1998, Seattle, Washingtion. Des Plaines, IL: American Society of Safety Engineers, 1998 Jun; :537-559
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• 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:
  Proceedings of the 37th annual professional development conference of the American Society of Safety Engineers/Canadian Society of Safety Engineering, June 14-17, 1998, Seattle, Washingtion
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:075d75735b8165bf731e526decf0d064b8af8337725170cc540cd58cc3b81df01673cc35e61fba7c74a6a6f0c0eeaaeaa022dbbe6d76822cb3062491e29e12fa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210331/cdc_210331_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 12.22 MB ]