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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]