82 – Addressing Observation Challenges in Behavior-Based Safety
Jun 21st, 2009 by safetyculture
Greetings from Dublin, Ireland and podcast number 82! This week will be focusing on answering a subscriber’s question about observations in a Behavior-Based Safety process. We received the following email: “An issue we are having at our plant is our behavioral observation program is turning in results of 99% safe from month to month now but the injuries are still occurring. We have greatly reduced our safety measures since implementing the program in late 2007. We currently only have one for this fiscal year and we have had zero lost time injuries since implementing the program as well. The minor first aid injuries are greatly reduced as well, but the ones we have seem to be behavioral related and are trying to figure out how to get to the zero injuries stage. I guess where we need to get to is a point where the employees are not just “pencil whipping” the observations so they can get credit for doing them. I’m wondering how you get from point A to point B. Any help would be greatly appreciated.”
Thank you for the comment and question. The more information you provide us the better we can try to answer the questions, so thank you for that. While there are a lot of other questions we typically ask before offering advice, this week we will try to provide some ideas to help with this common challenge.
Listen in and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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