Linking production to safety: boosting productive performance through behavior-based safety.
Construction continues to have the largest number of fatal and major injuries among industry groups and the general rates have shown only a small amount of change over the last number of years. Safety processes can (and do) fail, resulting in injuries and incidents. Behavioral science uses data and analysis to come to conclusions about what is actually happening. Therefore, objectivity is at the core of behavioral science. This science of behavior can help us produce more effective implementations of safety solutions. B-BS processes recognize the workplace environment as the dominant factor in the creation of safe working. This focus on behavior needs to be co-ordinated with the elimination of work hazards. This paper will discuss the history, successes, and failures of B-BS, and suggest fertile areas for improving traditional safety practices. The natural effect of the pairing of a successful B-BS roll out with production occurs because the leadership is now much educated regarding human behavior. The interest and attention to planning 'how' things get done on sites is much greater when B-BS exists. This paper will discuss how roll out of B-BS has also resulted in improvements in production and early completion rates of construction Projects.
Hollin Consulting, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK. hlees@hollinconsulting.co.uk
Howard
H
Lees
Bruce
B
Faulkner
D001519:Behavior; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health