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SAFETY BULLETIN / October - December 2006

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Behavioral Safety

John Orawiec, Safety Specialist

Many companies, for whom safety is a constant part of their business culture, believe that behavioral safety is just one more safety control that should be added to the already long list of safety tools already in use.  

Thus, many companies believe engineering controls (designing equipment to be less hazardous) and administrative controls (ex. having employees rotate jobs, thus lessening exposure) are on an equal timeline with behavioral safety.  However, behavioral safety is most effective – you see the best results – when the usual safety tools (engineering, administrative, etc.) have been instituted and have been given time to produce results.  Meaning, after all hazards have been engineered out or guarded against, all job hazard analysis have been performed and corrective procedures put into place, then is the time to look to behavioral safety to add the final touches to your corporate safety environment.  This is not to say that behavioral safety cannot offer safety controls before the other methods have had time to work.  However, many hazards are just better addressed by the other safety controls. 

It is when all other safety controls/procedures are in place and incident rates have plateau or near misses are still prevalent that a behavioral safety program can add the final controls to make a company a world-class safety organization.  

Therefore, to those who wish to use behavioral safety in their company/organization, I say wait until you are ready for behavioral safety.  You will know when the time is right when all other safety control have been put into place and there are still injuries/near misses.  Then is the time to call on the powerful paradigm of behavioral safety.   

 
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