Behavioral Safety Research in Manufacturing Settings

Grindle, Angelica C.; Dickinson, Alyce M.; Boettcher, William A.

doi:10.1300/j075v20n01_03

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“…Another research topic of particular relevance to behavioral safety is the impact a process has on improving safety climate. Despite the belief that behavioral safety is not perceived favorably by workers, many studies have reported that implementations of the process affect worker perceptions positively (DePasquale & Geller, 1999;Grindle et al, 2000). More research in needed to confirm these reports, and determine the direction of any causal relationships found between the various elements of a behavioral safety process and concomitant improvements in safety climate.…”

Section: Safety Culture and Climatementioning

confidence: 97%

“…This paper is not intended to be an exhaustive review of the behavioral safety literature. Topical reviews can be found elsewhere (Grindle, Dickinson, & Boettcher, 2000;Krause, Seymour, & Sloat, 1999). Nor is this paper intended to provide a comparison or evaluation of behavioral safety interventions relative to other safety controls.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many scientific studies and anecdotal reports support the claims of behavioral safety proponents that lasting injury reductions can be achieved through some form of behavioral safety process (Agnew & Snyder, 2002;Grindle et al, 2000;Krause et al, 1999). However, because specific intervention practices vary considerably, and because few studies have systematically evaluated and compared the various approaches, it is difficult for safety professionals to identify best practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…in Grindle et al, 2000) that people under-use safety devices even when this risky behavior cannot be justified as rational. Interestingly, in many cases people voluntarily buy the safety devices that they do not use.…”

Section: Practical Implications and Future Researchmentioning

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Small feedback‐based decisions and their limited correspondence to description‐based decisions

Barron

Erev

2003

Behavioral Decision Making

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The present paper explores situations in which the information available to decision makers is limited to feedback concerning the outcomes of their previous decisions. The results reveal that experience in these situations can lead to deviations from maximization in the opposite direction of the deviations observed when the decisions are made based on a description of the choice problem. Experience was found to lead to a reversed common ratio/certainty effect, more risk seeking in the gain than in the loss domain, and to an underweighting of small probabilities. Only one of the examined properties of description-based decisions, loss aversion, seems to emerge robustly in these 'feedback-based' decisions. These results are summarized with a simple model that illustrates that all the unique properties of feedback-based decisions can be a product of a tendency to rely on recent outcomes. Copyright # 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. key words Probability learning; feedback-based decisions; reinforcement learning; prospect theory; Allais paradox Many common activities involve 'small' decision problems. Driving, for example, requires repeated selection among routes, speeds, and various other options. Although little time and effort is typically invested in these and similar small decisions, they can be consequential. The estimated cost of traffic accidents in the USA is more than 100 billion dollars a year (see e.g. Blincoe, 1994 1 ), and many of the accidents are at least partially products of ex-post unwise decisions.The current paper focuses on an important subset of the small decision problems exemplified above that can be referred to as 'small feedback-based' decisions. These problems are defined by three main properties. First, they are repeated; decision makers face the same problem many times in similar situations. Second,

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“…BBS researchers have discussed the benefits and limitations of using injury rates as dependent variables (Grindle et al, 2000;Sulzer-Azaroff & Austin, 2000). One argument is that injuries are low probability events and there are, therefore, few opportunities to impact them.…”

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A Safety Program That Integrated Behavior-Based Safety and Traditional Safety Methods and Its Effects on Injury Rates of Manufacturing Workers

Hermann

Ibarra²,

Hopkins

2010

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management

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The present research examines the effects of a complex safety program that combined Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) and traditional safety methods. The study was conducted in an automobile parts plant in Mexico. Two sister plants served as comparison. Some of the components of the safety programs addressed behaviors of managers and included methods for tracking and ensuring that all components of the safety intervention were systematically carried out. Seven years of safety data indicate that the program was very effective in reducing injuries to workers with reductions of 92% for the index of first-time occupational visits, 99% reduction in lost-time case rate, and 96% reduction in severity rate. Arguments are made that BBS programs should expand to include behaviors that are distal to the behaviors of line workers and thus improve its acceptance and effectiveness. KEYWORDS behavior-based safety and traditional safety methods, tracking of management and workers' behaviors, long term reductions in injuries

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Behavioral Safety Research in Manufacturing Settings

Cited by 58 publications

References 34 publications

When workplace safety depends on behavior change: Topics for behavioral safety research

When workplace safety depends on behavior change: Topics for behavioral safety research

Small feedback‐based decisions and their limited correspondence to description‐based decisions

A Safety Program That Integrated Behavior-Based Safety and Traditional Safety Methods and Its Effects on Injury Rates of Manufacturing Workers

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