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… al mismo tiempo que se añade diversión al trabajo diario. THIS IS A SPANISH LANGUAGE VERSION OF Removing Obstacles to Safety Creating and maintaining a competitive business that keeps safety as a priority is tough. Organizations have created excellent practices and procedures resulting in safer work environments, but behavior must be a key component of any successful safety endeavor. Removing Obstacles to Safety: A Behavior-Based Approach provides a quick, but detailed overview for …
… Big Branch Mine explosion in West Virginia. For the last several decades, many companies have turned to Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) systems to enhance their safety culture and reduce incidents and injuries. When these systems are designed and functioning well, evidence shows that they are quite effective in improving safe habits, communication of safety concerns, and the resulting safety outcomes ( see Turnbeaugh, T. 2010, March. Improving business outcomes: …
… ADI Vice President of Safety Solutions receives Outstanding Contribution Award from the OBM Network Organizational Behavior Management Network … analysis. Atlanta, GA: (June, 2012) – The Organizational Behavior Management Network presented Dr. Judy Agnew , ADI’s VP of Safety Solutions, with the 2011 Outstanding Contribution Award at its annual conference in Seattle, WA this month. With Judy’s 20+ years of consulting experience and recent groundbreaking contributions to behavioral safety, she is adeptly deserving of this prestigious honor. Judy has established herself as a thought leader in the field of …
… performance. Behavioral science has been used across industries to improve customer service, quality, productivity, and safety. ADI’s time-tested, evidence-based approach helps create cultures of engagement where all workers are energized and … company to customers. These workers operate large vehicles in public spaces so they are not only responsible for their own safety, but also the safety of people around them—customers, passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Their behavior also directly …
… Noroural: Casting Behavior-Based Safety in a Positive Light Noroural: Casting Behavior-Based Safety in a Positive Light BY Gail Snyder Download PDF file Producing tons of molten metal per day and transporting the hot … Iceland today employs 530 people as well as approximately 140 temporary summer workers. Trausti Gylfason became the safety manager of the plant in 1999. “Safety was not at a high standard and we were having a lot of problems,” he explains. …
… and ProcessMAP Corporation Announce a Strategic Partnership to Jointly Deliver Industry’s Leading Behavioral Science-based Safety Transformation Solution Utilizing ProcessMAP’s leading process and data intelligence platform, coupled with ADI’s proven behavioral science approach, the combined solution will facilitate reporting and improving safety performance by building safe habits. Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Atlanta, GA (March 4, 2020) – Aubrey Daniels … are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to offer a web and mobile-based solution to support Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) practices. With ProcessMAP’s analytics-driven cloud platform, and ADI’s proven BBS system, this partnership …
… Are Habits Bad for Safety? The debate about whether developing habits should be a goal in safety has been going on for decades. A recent article in Professional Safety ( Making Safety a Mindful Value, Not a Mindless Habit , June 2023) raised the debate yet again. At ADI, we have been …
… Sustaining BBS by Going Back to Basics BY BETH HOWARD Download PDF file First viewed by many as a soft approach to managing safety, behavior-based safety (BBS), a technology based on the science of behavior analysis, has earned respect during the past 40 years. In fact … Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies reports, “In workplaces with troublesome rates of unsafe performance, behavioral safety programs, properly implemented, produce significant improvements in safe performance and major reductions in …
… Safety Surveys and Assessments Safety is a continuous improvement endeavor. We take an evidence-based view of safety. The inevitability of change requires constant refinement of safety systems and practices, but knowing what to work on next is not always clear. Self-assessments of organizational …
… Food Safety: Who is in Control? Would you believe nobody? With the recent outbreak of salmonella poisoning caused by egg contamination, it raises the debate yet again, “Who’s in Control of our food safety?” I was appalled, but not surprised, to read the recent USA Today article outlining the numerous violations Austin … years. Dating back as far as 1994 and as recent as June 2010, he has been cited and fined for environmental, health, and safety violations that include such things as hog manure runoff into waterways, exposure to harmful bacteria, unguarded …
… $24.95 Quantity Add to cart Safe Habits Bart Sevin & Judy Agnew This is Not Your Parents’ Behavior-Based Safety System Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is a system for developing safe habits at work that has evolved and improved since its inception over 40 years … behavior (Behavior Analysis) have resulted in BBS continuing to be a highly effective element of any organization’s overall Safety Management System. Authors Bart Sevin and Judy Agnew provide a current framework for BBS that reflects its evolution …
… OSHA Memo Warning about Improper Use of Safety Incentives and Discipline Managing consequences such as incentives and punishment are thorny issues in safety. ADI has long held that monetary bonuses based on injury counts/rates are problematic for a number of reasons … of generating underreporting and coverups. We have also held that overusing punishment for injuries has the same effect. Safety is an area that requires a thorough understanding of how consequences such as incentives and discipline affect the …
… catastrophes reaches us within minutes. We may tell ourselves that though such incidents are tragic, at least industrial safety has progressed by light years over past decades and accidents resulting in deaths are fewer. We may even harbor a false sense of security that government oversight and corporate proclamations of safety as a first priority will mitigate the dangers of the workplace. Some of these viewpoints may be partially justifiable, but according to behavioral safety specialist, Dr. Dwight Harshbarger, the past predicts the present, serving as a dire warning against complacency. …
… An Example of Leadership Success: Putting Safety First It’s easy to preach “safety is number one” when the sky is blue, but what you do when the sky goes grey is what really matters. This third blog is dedicated to highlighting one leader’s example of what it means to be a safety leader. Most companies that put employees in hazardous work environments have some version of the slogan: “Safety is …
… Why Incentives and Safety Don’t Mix! Dr. Judy Agnew and Dr. Aubrey Daniels challenge commonly used safety incentives. Who doesn’t like a good challenge or contest, right? True, but safety incentives, by their very nature and design, are set up to reward an outcome that can come at any cost. Find out why, …