Behavior-based Safety is a method to use positive reinforcement to change unsafe behavior.
The system:
- Is employee-based for continuous improvement;
- Analyzes tasks and hazards to identify critical safety behaviors;
- Analyzes behavior based on job observation;
- Uses feedback about safety performance as reinforcement;
- Behavior-based Safety Principles;
- Behavior is the cause of accidents;
- Consequences motivate behavior;
- What gets measured gets done;
- Feedback is essential to improvement;
- Quality is built-in early in the process;
- Conversations change organizations;
- Behavior-based Safety and Integrated Safety Management.
via Safety Training – Safety Guidance Specialists: What is Behavior-based Safety?.