Last year I got a call from a friend of mine, Don. He was the facilitator of a behavioral process at a chemical plant, and the plant was doing some major cost-cutting.
"The same managers who were tickled to death with the injury reductions a few years ago are now trying to tell me that those reductions would have happened with or without behavioral safety," said Don. His site had an OSHA incidence rate of about 9.0 during most of the 1980s. The behavioral safety process was started in 1989, and the rate was below 2.0 from 1995 through 1997.