Over 20 years of research and application have provided indisputable evidence that behavior-based safety strategies, when applied properly, help workers engage in safe behaviors more frequently, thereby reducing incidents. The critical elements of traditional behavior-based safety (BBS) include (1) pinpointing important safe behaviors that need improving, (2) real-time peer-to-peer observation of employees engaging in work tasks requiring those safe behaviors, and (3) feedback and reinforcement to strengthen desired safe behaviors. These strategies work most effectively when workers are in close proximity and can observe each other frequently. When observations are done infrequently (e.g., once a month) behavior change is slower and the process is much less effective. So where does that leave the lone worker population?
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