5 principles for upgrading your behavior-based safety programs

摘要

IMAGINE USING A PIECE OF TECH-nology from last century to solve a problem in this century. Unfortunately, that's what's happening for too many organizations in the world of safety. By some accounts, behavior-based safety was introduced into the American workplace as far back as the 1930s. Since then, it has become a mainstay for many US organizations trying to keep their workers safe. The problem is that times have changed, but behavior-based safety hasn't. Its still largely a pencil-to-paper system of peer-to-peer observations that leans too heavily on identifying and disciplining bad worker behavior.