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This document discusses Behavior-Based Safety (BBS), which is a process that helps employees choose safe behaviors over unsafe ones. It involves observing employee behaviors, providing feedback on safe and unsafe behaviors, analyzing the data to set improvement goals, and reinforcing safe behavior and goal attainment. The key components of BBS include observation and feedback, reviewing observation data, setting improvement goals, and rewarding progress. BBS focuses on how individual behaviors, work environments, and physical capabilities combine to impact workplace safety.

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4 +Behavior-Based+Safety

This document discusses Behavior-Based Safety (BBS), which is a process that helps employees choose safe behaviors over unsafe ones. It involves observing employee behaviors, providing feedback on safe and unsafe behaviors, analyzing the data to set improvement goals, and reinforcing safe behavior and goal attainment. The key components of BBS include observation and feedback, reviewing observation data, setting improvement goals, and rewarding progress. BBS focuses on how individual behaviors, work environments, and physical capabilities combine to impact workplace safety.

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Behavior-Based Safety?

„ Introduction
„ Principles
„ Process

„ DESCON’s Safety Management System

„ How can we implement BBS Process


What is Behavior-Based Safety?
Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is a process
that helps employees
choose
and
identify

a safe behavior over an unsafe one

Behavior-Based Safety
Basic Behavior Principles
Safety in the workplace is a combination of three
measurable components:

„ the people „ their „ their behavior


environment

Only when these three elements are combined can


workplace accidents be controlled

Behavior-Based Safety
Basic Behavior Principles
the people

The ‘people’ component consists of the employees’:

„ Physical „ Experience
capabilities

„ Training

Behavior-Based Safety
Basic Behavior Principles
their environment

The ‘work environment’ represents:

„ Engineering Controls „ Equipment

„ Work Culture „ Job Task

Behavior-Based Safety
Basic Behavior Principles
their behavior

The most overlooked component is ‘behavior’

– what a person does on the job


and how he does it

Behavior-Based Safety
BBS Process
Behavior-Based Safety is based on four key components:

„ A behavioral observation and feedback process

„ A formal review of observation data


„ Improvement goals

„ Reinforcement for improvement and goal


attainment

Behavior-Based Safety
BBS Process
Observations provide direct and measurable information
on the employees’ safe work practices.
„ Employees are observed performing their routine tasks.

„ The observer documents both safe and unsafe behaviors

„ The employee is then provided positive feedback on the


safe behaviors and non-threatening feedback on the
unsafe behaviors.
„ The feedback is in the form of suggestions on correcting
the unsafe behaviors
Behavior-Based Safety
BBS Process
formal review of observation data

„ The data is analyzed to determine the employee’s (or


department’s) improvement in safe behaviors.

„ The improvement should be displayed for employees to


view.
This provides positive reinforcing feedback to the
employees.

Behavior-Based Safety
BBS Process
Improvement goals

„ Based on the data analysis, setting improvement goals


increases the effectiveness of feedback and the
success of the behavior-based safety process

Behavior-Based Safety
BBS Process
Reinforcement for improvement and goal attainment

„ The Management must provide immediate positive


feedback to reinforce safe behavior.

Rewards can be an effective means of reinforcing goal


attainment.

Behavior-Based Safety
DESCON’s SMS

Hazard Identification HSE Orientation

Risk Assessment Craft-specific HSE


& Control Training

Job Safety Analysis Tool-box Talks

Behavior-Based Safety
Establishing a BBS Process
„ Developing a list of at-risk behaviors
Inputs for extraction of such behaviors:
„ Hazard „ Risk Assessment &
Identification Control
„ Job Safety Analysis „ Accident / Incident
Reports
Appreciating difference between pre-determined Risks
(associated with task) and Behavioral Risks (associated
with each individual)
Behavior-Based Safety
Establishing a BBS Process
(contd.)
„ Observing behaviors of individuals / teams

„ Analyzing behaviors

„ Providing Feedback

Behavior-Based Safety
People-Based Safety

„ Introduction

„ Acting
„ Coaching

„ Thinking
„ Seeing
„ How-to

Behavior-Based Safety

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