What is Behavior-Based Safety?
Behavior-based safety is a concept. It takes the idea of personal responsibility and expands on it to provide a culture where safe behavior is supported and rewarded. It does not require your company to purchase any new equipment or create new procedures. It just needs you to make some changes in the way you think. Behavior-Based Safety is a safety philosophy to increase proactive behavior, which supports incident prevention and positive worker involvement. It is a company philosophy that comes from the realization that the driving force behind unsafe decision-making and unsafe behavior within an organization can be linked to the human behaviors of individuals. Some organizations continue to operate unsafely and wonder why they do not have a good safety record. The need for behavior-based safety is increasingly important in today's dynamic work environment. It's hard to imagine building a culture of safety without including an effective behavior-based safety (BBS) program w...