Behavior based safety - Articles - Page 12

Superior safety is more complicated than “coach and correct”

Todd Hohn CSP

November 3, 2014

Have you ever wondered how some organizations are able to achieve great safety performance year over year?

Safety’s thirst for injury data

It is so easy to be seduced by data and somehow think we now “know” how organization thinks about safety

Dr. Rob Long

October 28, 2014

Everything we “know” is retrospective. Humans have unlimited hindsight but limited foresight. This is most apparent in the preoccupation with counting injury statistics. Statistics in themselves don’t tell us the “story” of what they mean; significance is subjectively determined.

Coach your employees to be individual safety leaders

Dr. John Kello

October 2, 2014

Safety “programs” that emphasize the role of human error/unsafe acts have an interesting history.

How to give feedback

It should be a conversation, not a lecture

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

October 2, 2014

We’ve all heard about the “feedback sandwich” where it’s recommended that critical feedback should be sandwiched by positive feedback on both sides.

Gift card gamification: Game elements support inner motivation to work safely

Marc Resnick

October 2, 2014

Gift cards are a common element of today’s safety incentive programs.

NSC 2014 Speaker Q&A with Bob Veazie

We go beyond the minimum when we are personally committed

September 10, 2014

ISHN conducted an exclusive interview with Bob Veazie, who presented a talk on “Commitment-Based Safety: Highest Performance Safety” at the National Safety Congress & Expo, Sept 15-17, in San Diego.

GE embraces human and organizational performance

Dave Johnson

September 4, 2014

Mistakes will happen. It’s human error. People are people working within the context of systems, so GE takes people out of the equation and focuses on risk, the risks of the systems that employees work within, said Ann R. Klee, the VP for Environment, Health and Safety at GE, speaking at the opening session of the 30^th annual meeting (Aug. 25-28) of the Voluntary Protection Program Participants’ Association (VPPPA), in National Harbor, MD, outside of Washington DC.