It cannot be assumed that workers will naturally begin to report problems, errors, and near misses once a just environment is in place. There are a number of organizational as well as psychological barriers that must be hurdled before a reporting culture can be put in place. The first barrier to overcome is… Membership Required...
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Three (3) ingredients are vital for driving the safety engine, all of them the province of top management or what the organizational theorist, Mintzberg, has termed the strategic apex of the system. These driving forces are: commitment, competence and cognizance Reason’s three C’s…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership...
Despite their differences in tradition, emphasis, and application domains, there is no reason why these various models and their associated practices should not coexist harmoniously within the same organization so long as the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are recognized…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a...
Three Approaches to Safety Management (Reason, 1997) Read More »
Error Management (EM) has two (2) components: error reduction and error containment Error reduction comprises measures designed to limit the occurrence of errors. Since this will never be wholly successful, we also need error containment measures designed to limit the adverse consequences of those errors that still occur. At this general level, EM is indistinguishable…...
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Fostering the principles for a strong safety culture is one of the most challenging tasks facing a management team. Successful leadership achieving a strong safety culture will most likely move an organization to the next level of human performance. A leader is any individual who takes personal responsibility for his or her performance as well…...
I have used this tool, with some modern-day modifications, for years. When I was a safety manager of a facility I would constantly be looking for these indicators as a means to validate what I was “feeling”. As safety pros, we have a sixth sense of how things are going, but there are so many…...
Where is your safety culture? Read More »
“Name, blame, shame, retrain” is an often-used phrase for older ineffective paradigms of safety management and accident analysis. Dr. Rosabeth Moss Kanter of Harvard Business School phased the situation this way: “Accountability is a favorite word to invoke when the lack of it has become so apparent.” Kanter, 2009 The concepts of accountability, culpability and…...
Accountability, Culpability and a “Just Culture” (Dr. James Reason) Read More »
Earlier, I outlined the six (6) stages of a Behavior Modification Intervention. Now, I want to discuss how the same six-step process used to change the behaviors of hourly workers can be used to promote critical health and safety behaviors amongst management personnel. Management behavior will heavily influence the success or failure of a Behavior-Based…...
Using Behavior-Based Observation Process to promote MANAGEMENT BEHAVIORS Read More »
Almost all Occupational Safety and Health efforts need one key ingredient to be successful… Employees participating in the safety process! Heck, OSHA and EPA have even regulated employee participation (EP) in their process safety standards. But far too many organizations have not quite understood the concept of Parent-to-Parent engagement vs. Parent-to-Child engagement and almost all…...
When the “Employee Participation” ain’t what its cracked up to be! Read More »
The elements that form the safety culture maturity model have been adapted from the safety culture components listed by the HSE in Reducing error and influencing behavior – HSG48. It is unlikely that these elements will map precisely onto the factors that companies have previously measured in safety culture or climate surveys because there is…...
Safety Culture Maturity model – FSCMM (Fleming) Read More »
When analyzing barriers, investigators should first consider how the hazard and target could come together and what was in place or was required to keep them apart. Obvious physical barriers are those placed directly on the hazard (e.g., a guard on a grinding wheel); those placed between a hazard and target (e.g., a railing on…...
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The core element of behavior modification is the ABC model of behavior: Antecedents Behavior Consequences The ABC model specifies that behavior is triggered by a set of Antecedents (something that precedes behavior and is causally linked to the behavior) and followed by Consequences (outcome of the behavior for the individual) that increase…...
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