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…...
“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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
The main elements of a safety culture and their various interactions are previewed below. Each subcomponent will be discussed more fully below:… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Approaches to health and safety vary considerably at all levels of management. As we will see, the Human Factors approach wins hands-down…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
The use of risk controls or barriers to protect the people from hazards is a core principle of safety. Barriers are employed to serve two purposes: to prevent the release of hazardous energy and to mitigate harm in the event hazardous energy is released Energy is defined broadly as used here and includes multiple forms,…...
Safety Management Systems (SMS) was developed to integrate safety as part of an organization’s management of safety performance. The benefits of process-based management systems are a well-established component of quality performance. As organizations and the technologies they employ became more complex and diverse, and the rate of change in the pace of societal expectations, technical…...
