PSYCHOLOGY OF SAFETY: People-Based Safety™ in action:
In a Total Safety Culture, people Act to prevent injuries, Coach one another to identify barriers to safe acts and provide constructive behavior-based feedback, Think in ways that activate and support safe behavior, and focus and scan to See hazards. These four essentials of People-Based Safety — called “ACTS†— provide knowledge, skills, and tools to fully address the human dynamics of industrial safety.
It’s fitting the essentials of People-Based Safety (PBS) spell “ACTS,†because safety depends upon the actions of people. PBS targets attitudes, perceptions and thoughts to improve these “person states,†leading to changes in critical behaviors. If behavior or actions don’t improve — there is no bottom line benefit to safety.