Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

July 22, 2009 Uncategorized

A series addressing the top reasons you are having problems with your behavior-based safety system.
1. You did not do your homework.
2. You got an off-the-shelf BBS system instead of a customized process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: You chose an inflexible consulting firm.
4. You bought complexity instead of basic tools.
5. Your leaders [...]

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Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

July 20, 2009 Uncategorized

A series addressing the top reasons you are having problems with your behavior-based safety system.
1. You did not do your homework.
2. You got an off-the-shelf BBS system instead of a  customized  process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: You chose an  inflexible consulting firm.
4. You bought complexity instead of basic tools.
5. Your leaders [...]

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Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

July 12, 2009 Uncategorized

From “Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping”  a series addressing the top reasons you are having problems with your behavior-based safety system.
1. You did not do your homework.
2. You got an off-the-shelf BBS system instead of a  customized process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: you chose an inflexible consulting [...]

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Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

July 10, 2009 Uncategorized

From “Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping” addressing the top reasons you are having problems with your behavior-based safety system.
1. You did not do your homework.
2. You got an off-the-shelf BBS system instead of a customized process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: you chose an inflexible consulting firm.
4. You [...]

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Using BBS Observation Skills for Emergency Preparedness

June 22, 2009 Uncategorized

If you are implementing behavior-based safety correctly, you have taught your observers what a behavior “is,” or “is not” – meaning they know a behavior from a non-behavior. A behavior can be observed; a non-behavior, like “thoughtfulness,” (the word implies a state of mind, not directly observable behavior) cannot be directly observed. We can only [...]

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You Did Not Do Your Homework!

June 8, 2009 Uncategorized

From “Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping” a series addressing the top reasons you are having problems with your behavior-based safety system.
1. You did not do your homework.
2. You got an off-the-shelf BBS system instead of a customized process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: You chose an inflexible [...]

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Seven Reasons Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

May 21, 2009 Uncategorized

In the last fifteen years, thousands of Behavior-based Safety (BBS) processes have been implemented worldwide. BBS is the most commonly used process for injury reduction. It is participative, preventive, and positive; it is the Six Sigma–the TQM for safety. BBS’s core components are so powerful that it is hard to imagine how you can implement [...]

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Put Some Energy Back into Your BBS Process through Employee Initiated – “Lean” Observations

May 11, 2009 Uncategorized

I’m not advocating that you discard the 30 minute observational audits you have come to know and love. Of course you need a thorough assessment of the work setting to encourage a thorough assessment of risk, but everyone knows that after a few years – even months – these things get pretty routine and uninspiring.

I’m [...]

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Put Some Energy Back into Your BBS Process through Employee Initiated – “Lean” Observations

May 11, 2009 Uncategorized

I’m not advocating that you discard the 30 minute observational audits you have come to know and love. Of course you need a thorough assessment of the work setting to encourage a thorough assessment of risk, but everyone knows that after a few years – even months – these things get pretty [...]

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Overcoming Objections to Behavior-Based Safety: Let Employees Initiate the Observations

May 11, 2009 Uncategorized

When I wrote my last blog about this, I expected a rush of responses about how this idea would transform the ethos surrounding BBS – that the idea would create insights and epiphanies. I expected corporate safety managers and BBS facilitators to gush about the empowering possibilities it released.

Maybe I did not make myself clear: [...]

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