It is a standard error made in Behavior Based Safety Processes (BBSP)… we celebrate the % Safe while the real value lies in the % Unsafe. I am all for celebrating the successes once they have been validated as real; however, to get the potential value from our BBSP, we need to utilize the unsafe behaviors to create a LEARNING CULTURE within our organizations. Even when the unsafe percentage is 3%, there is a TON OF OPPORTUNITY to intervene in those behaviors, but first, we have to recognize this opportunity. I have written a lot about “causal analysis” as it relates to our incident investigations. Still, those causal analysis tools can be used in many other ways, such as formally analyzing our “unsafe acts”.
In a BBSP the % Unsafe is more valuable than the % Safe
