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What is Behavioral Based Safety Management?

Employee behavior and it's effect on safety performance is not a new concept. In the 1930's, research by H.W. Heinrich proved that 88% of industrial accidents were caused by unsafe behavior and not related to an unsafe environment. At the same time, B.F. Skinner was the pioneer who laid the groundwork for Behavioral Science. His approach, which was generally overlooked for many years, was to observe what people did, determine why they did it and apply intervention to reinforce correct behavior and to modify incorrect behavior. This is where it all began.

If you ask every behavioral safety expert in the world their explanation of behavioral safety, you will probably get a widely varied assortment of answers. Behavioral science as it is applied to industrial safety has many facets. Traditional safety management, which is closely related to today's technology, saw wide spread use in the post World War II era. Many of the programs had their roots in such things as engineering, improving work sites, establishing rules and guidelines and authoritarian styles of management. These efforts were highly successful in reducing the massive number of injuries and deaths in American industry. Behavioral Based Safety gained popularity in the 1980's when OSHA, the FAA and the National Safety Council recognized the fact that 85 - 90% of all accidents and injuries could be directly related to Human Behavior. Behavioral Safety Consulting firms sprang up overnight and some were effective in reducing injuries related to human behavior. This technology generally fell into two distinct classes which we'll discuss in more detail later.

These are known as the Humanistic and Behavioristic approaches. With new technology constantly emerging, the face of behavior based safety is ever changing. ADSI recognizes that in today's global, sophisticated and diverse marketplace, state of the art technology is needed to address behavioral safety issues. ADSI's unique approach to these issues has proven highly effective, universally accepted by employees and economical for the client.

We invite you to take a few moments and explore the "Next Generation Integrated" Behavioral Based Safety technology offered by Accelerated Development Systems Inc.