When it was introduced, behavior-based safety (BBS) was seen as a magic panacea for everything that ailed safety programs. “It was the Swiss Army Knife of safety programs. It could take care of ...

Behavior-based safety (BBS) initiatives fault the worker as the primary cause of accidents and injuries, ignoring the necessity for engineering fixes to improve hazardous equipment and conditions that ...

LIKE everyone, you're probably looking to reduce workplace injuries, and you think a safety program focusing on attitude may be your ticket to injury-free employees. You may very well be right. But ...

Anderson, M. (2006). Behavioral safety and major accident hazards: Magic bullet or shot in the dark? Merseyside, U.K.: Health and Safety Executive. ANSI/ASSE. (2012). Occupational health and safety ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Jan. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ProAct Safety, a recognized pioneer of safety excellence strategies, announced its founder and CEO, Terry L. Mathis, will lead two sessions at ...

For at least a century, safety incentive programs have often been misunderstood and misused. Many have delivered positive results, but some have produced unintended consequences. Quite often, ...

Instead of taking a sprawling corner office when he joined the company, former Alcoa Inc. CEO, Paul O’Neill, settled into his new role by taking his place in a cubicle. This wasn’t the only ...

Fewer workplace injuries translate into less hours of production lost, a smaller number of claims, and savings for companies and West Virginia’s first private workers’ compensation provider alike. To ...