Applied Behavior Analysis and Occupational Safety: The Challenge of Response Maintenance

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• Personal Author:
  Boyce TE ; Geller ES
• Description:
  Methods of generalization (Stokes & Baer, 1977) are applied to investigate contingencies that produce long-term response maintenance in large-scale behavioral interventions for industrial safety. It is proposed that characteristics representing four methods originally outlined by Stokes and Baer (1977) have an additive effect on the duration and amount of response maintenance obtained. To evaluate the validity of this conceptualization, a sample of occupational safety research published in refereed journals between 1974 and 1996 is described and analyzed. Regardless of intervention technique, noteworthy consistencies among all studies successful at producing maintenance were the use of on-site workers to administer the program and general feedback in the context of multiple target behaviors; or a single-target behavior that was easy and convenient to emit. It is recommended that applied behavior analysts set out to program response maintenance at the expense of publishing fewer short-term demonstrations of functional control. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Response Generalization Methods Behavior-patterns Behavioral Safety Injury-prevention Large-scale Industrial Safety Interventions Long-term Response Maintenance Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-programs Work-practices Worker-motivation

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• ISSN:
  0160-8061
• 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:
  31-60
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049663
• Citation:
  J Organ Behav Manage 2001 Jul; 21(1):31-60
• Contact Point Address:
  Thomas E. Boyce, Department of Psychology/296, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV 89557
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• 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 Organizational Behavior Management
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a1c4d814f576b0219ba907b5048d35cc50657729c061c60f2fcf0fdd4300db5220aa7a24882a531f8c8f4592a813ed8d3be98e75d5711f1672607694866e1758
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210341/cdc_210341_DS1.pdf
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