Critical Success Factors for Behavior-Based Safety

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• Personal Author:
  DePasquale J ; Geller ES ; Pettinger C ; Williams J
• Description:
  This paper reviews the methodology and preliminary findings of a two-year research grant that combines the technology of applied behavior analysis with theories of motivation, learning, and social influence to determine critical factors for the successful implementation of behavior-based (BB) safety. The research has both practical and theoretical objectives. From a practical perspective, the field studies, industrial interviews and focus groups, and large-scale surveys were designed to: a) develop flexible procedures for implementing an employee-driven process to reduce at-risk work behaviors and increase safe work practices; b) derive guidelines to increase employee involvement in a long-term BB safety improvement process; c) examine both short and long-term effects of a BB safety process on work practices, attitudes, person states, and injuries; d) determine the relative effectiveness of group versus individual feedback procedures to reduce at-risk behaviors and increase safe behaviors; e) study whether targeting certain work behaviors for an intervention process will influence other safety-related behaviors; and f) assess the extent to which line workers can implement an objective and reliable behavior-monitoring process as an integral aspect of their job assignments. From a theoretical perspective, this research: a) compared hypotheses derived from basic learning theory (i.e., response generalization) with those from danger compensation or risk homeostasis theory; and b) studied the role of certain individual factors (i.e., self-esteem, self-efficacy, personal control, optimism, and belongingness) derived from personality/social theory as predictors of involvement in a safety process, and as person states hypothesized to change as a function of involvement in an intervention process. Consequently, the overarching purpose of this research is not only to develop a set of guidelines for designing a practical long-term intervention process to reduce the risk of unintentional injury in the workplace, but also to develop theory and principles for maximizing the cost effectiveness, ecological validity, and potential for organizational institutionalization of injury-prevention countermeasures. [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
• ISBN:
  9781885581129
• 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
• Pages in Document:
  83-111
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049645
• Citation:
  Light up safety in the new millennium, proceedings of the American Society of Safety Engineers, a behavioral safety symposium, February 26-27, 1998, Orlando, Florida. Petersen D, ed. Des Plaines, IL: American Society of Safety Engineers, 1998 Feb; :83-111
• Editor(s):
  Petersen D
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19960201
• Source Full Name:
  Light up safety in the new millennium, proceedings of the American Society of Safety Engineers, a behavioral safety symposium, February 26-27, 1998, Orlando, Florida
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4a0242062c32a8b24231ff7dec60f7b1b41c5e28dd420236ecf3722fbdd32fb3e2012896a4e95aebe4c85ee0e25e81d1398d7aece9c7778dcadf2ac788e2afa6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210334/cdc_210334_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.45 MB ]