Behavior-Based Safety

Wanted: Safety Accountability
Devoted WV resident ignites a discussion on managements role in keeping mines safe...

What is Behavior-Based Safety?
A look at the history and its connection to science...

Deadly Decisions
An Interview with Dwight Harshbarger, author of Witness at Hawks Nest...

Commercial Vehicle Safety: Onboard Safety Monitoring as Part of Behavioral Safety Management
Driver safety, particularly in the trucking industry, demands constant attention to the specific behaviors of drivers to reduce accidents and injuries, thereby reducing road risks, crashes, and traffic violations...

FMC Mines With Safety
In a rough and demanding industry, FMCs Green River plant managers have discovered an exciting and different way of empowering their workforce...

Stress and Safety: A Costly Relationship
Note: This is the first of several articles offered by Aubrey Daniels International (ADI) to increase awareness of the high cost of stress in the...

For The Record: Incentives and Safety
At a recent behavior-based safety conference, I heard speakers say that they did not believe in incentives or gimmicks such as mugs, tee-shirts and...

Walking on (Wings in) Water:
USAirways Flight 1549, January 15, 2009 The forced landing of the Airbus in the Hudson on January 15, 2009 and the subsequent successful...

Merging the Methods of Behavior-based Safety and Continuous Improvement:
The Toyota Production System (TPS) goes by many names and acronyms such as the Global Production System (GPS), Continuous Improvement (CI) and most...

Vinings Industries Boosts Safety Success With BBS
Sometimes people automatically reject the idea of new safety strategies because they view such strategies as criticism of current processes or as...

Food Safety, Product Safety, and Public Protection: The Critical Role of Behavior
Food contamination problems as recent as salmonella-tainted peanuts from a Georgia plant have raised the public ire and questioned our confidence in corporations to insure food safety...

Optimizing Your BBS Investment
The CEO of a large manufacturing firm was delighted to hear the data resulting from the plant's behavior-based safety (BBS) initiative. The 40...

BBS is in the Air at York International
"Behavior-based safety is more than safety. You can incorporate it not only into many parts of your business but also to make things go...

Shell Exploration and Production On Target with Performance Management Training Software
Shell has set a corporate goal of "No accidents and no harm to people". This is no small task when you consider that this industry giant employs more...