Observing and Coaching At-Risk Body Motions

摘要

Behavior based safety ("BBS") is a powerful process for improving safety and organizationalrnperformance? if it is well implemented. Through implementation experience and benchmarking,rnthe authors have identified several common problems that can undermine the effectiveness of BBS.rnOne of these common problems is difficulty, or failure, to offer practical and valid behavioralrnalternatives to at-risk body position and at-risk body motion.rnAt-risk body position and body motions are important factors in common and costly incidents ofrnmusculoskeletal pain and disability, including: back pain, sprains and strains, tendonitis, and nervernentrapments.rnThe Westinghouse Electric Company's Western Zirconium (WZ) plant used a licensed trainingrnprogram called Safety In Motion? ("SIM") to effectively overcome this problem and boost thernWZ behavior based safety process to a new level of effectiveness.