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Items Tagged with 'safety observations'

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Call it proactive incident prevention

See a hazard, say something
Doug Pontsler
March 2, 2020

If you have been following our work at COVE, you know that we are all about the importance of Seeing the Whole PICTURE® so that we can be more effective in our safety processes. It is by Learning to See that we can improve our ability to interpret the environment around us and the things that we are doing so that we can identify hazards and understand risk.


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Tools for serious injury & fatality prevention
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Tools for serious injury & fatality prevention

Seeing precursors
Glenn Murray
March 2, 2020

In the last decade or so many organizations have been placing more of a focus on Serious Injury and Fatality prevention (SIF). The theory behind the traditional “Safety Pyramid” (or Heinrich Safety Triangle) says if we reduce incidents at the “base” of the pyramid, it follows we will reduce incidents at the top of the pyramid at an approximately proportional rate. 


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Behavior checklist

Critical behavior checklist for effective behavior-based coaching

Assessing exposure, severity & probability
E. Scott Geller
October 8, 2018
Behavior-based coaching is essential for any mission to keep people safe. It’s human nature to get distracted or complacent on the job, and to deviate from performing the prescribed safe operating procedure (SOP).
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Workers

How to best incorporate Behavior-Based Safety

Benefits: lower costs and better safety
Alexa Sussman
August 3, 2018
Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is the application of behavioral psychology to improve safety in the workplace. The aim is to change behaviors that cause incidents and promote behaviors that are efficient and safe.
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Workers on site- Behavior Based Safety

How BBS differs from other safety processes

What’s the difference?
Grace Herrara
August 30, 2017

A behavior-based safety (BBS) process's focus is on employee behavior during tasks or in reaction to surrounding environmental events- equipment failures, process breakdowns, poor lighting or other work conditions.


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broader work system

Behavior doesn’t happen in a vacuum

You must look at the broader work system
Cary Usrey
Chuck Pettinger
Chuck Pettinger
August 3, 2015

During the late 1970s, Judy Komaki and her behavioral psychologist colleagues used their methodology in a food manufacturing facility to improve the safety performance by focusing on reinforcing safe behaviors (Komaki, Barwick, & Scott, 1978). This was the birth of behavior-based safety (BBS).


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complacency

When complacency creeps in: identify, observe & discuss drifts in performance

Timothy Ludwig
Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.
February 3, 2015
Jack had been working the extruder for years, but this time he failed to recognize a common hazard when he was clearing a blockage.


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safety feedback

How to give feedback

It should be a conversation, not a lecture
Timothy Ludwig
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.


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rechargeable batteries

The Behavior-based safety death spiral

Five keys to recharge an observation process
Chuck Pettinger
Chuck Pettinger
August 1, 2014
Can organizations learn anything from the simple ant?


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