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Behavior-Based Safety Leadership

July 29, 2009 Uncategorized

Leadership gurus have made a fortune defining what leadership is and most men and women aspire to be identified as representative of the elevated stature associated with being a “leader.” Leaders have followers – they are purportedly charismatic and transformational. Managers have subordinates – they are transactional and influence through the authority provided them.
One recognizes [...]

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Seven Reason Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

July 29, 2009 Uncategorized

7. You Don’t Know How to Deliver Effective Feedback, Recognition, and Celebrate Success
What leadership attends to, what they talk about positively, and what they reward becomes the key values in an organization. Most supervisors don’t know how to interact with employees in a way that energizes critical behaviors – that helps performers identify value added [...]

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Seven Reason Why Your Behavior-based Safety Process is Flopping

July 24, 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 behavior-based safety 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 [...]

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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 behavior-based safety 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 [...]

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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 behavior-based safety 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 [...]

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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 behavior-based safety 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

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 Behavior-based safety system instead of a customized process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: you chose an inflexible consulting firm.
4. [...]

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Using Behavior-Based Safety 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 behavior-based safety system instead of a customized process.
3. No pickles, no lettuce—Special orders do upset us: You chose an [...]

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

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