Critical Success Factors for Behavior-Based Safety: A Study of Twenty Industry-Wide Applications

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• Personal Author:
  DePasquale JP ; Geller ES
• Description:
  One-on-one interviews and focus-group meetings were held at 20 organizations that had implemented a behavior-based safety (BBS) process in order to find reasons for program success/failures. A total of 31 focus groups gave 629 answers to six different questions. A content analysis of these responses uncovered critical information for understanding what employees are looking for in a BBS program. A perception survey administered to individual employees (n = 701) at these organizations measured a variety of variables identified in prior research to influence success in safety efforts. The survey data showed five variables to be significantly predictive of employee involvement in a BBS process: 1) perceptions that BBS training was effective; 2) trust in management abilities; 3) accountability for BBS through performance appraisals; 4) whether or not one had received education in BBS; and 5) tenure with the organization. Also, employees in organizations mandating employee participation in a BBS process (n=8 companies) reported significantly higher levels of: (a) involvement; (b) trust in management; (c) trust in coworkers; and (d) satisfaction with BBS training than did employees whose process was completely voluntary (n = 12 companies). In addition, employees in mandatory processes reported significantly greater frequency of giving and receiving positive behavior-based feedback. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Behavior-based Safety Behavior-patterns Employee Involvement Injury-prevention Injury Reduction Occupational-safety-programs Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety Culture Training Effectiveness Work-practices Worker-motivation Workplace-monitoring

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• ISSN:
  0022-4375
• 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:
  237-249
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049643
• Citation:
  J Safety Res 1999 Winter; 30(4):237-249
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• 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:
  Journal of Safety Research
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a7eaca302521774651fdda2401dff707de8621708649def93c8c60dee150485b5dec6716c9b31552c50b4ac32cb28b1ece718ffe63beeb12cdd3e5457010f33f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210332/cdc_210332_DS1.pdf
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