The Other Side of Safety: Moving from Results-Based to Behavior-Based Safety

The safety industry has a dysfunctional relationship between business and safety leaders, practices Results-Based Safety, and creates a false reality. This book presents an approach to moving a safety program from Results-Based to Behavior-Based Safety, which involves understanding what motivates behavior, utilizing consequences, practicing performance coaching, creating accurate safety campaigns, and defining evidence of a healthy Behavior-Based Safety program. It also discusses the distinction between Results-Based Safety and Behavior-Based Safety, the importance of expanding from lagging indicators to leading indicators, and the negative impact of telling people what to do.

Format: Hardback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The problem with the way the safety industry functions is three-fold: (1) the dysfunctional relationship between business and safety leaders, (2) the practice of Results-Based Safety, and (3) the creation of a false reality. This book presents an insightful and practical approach to how you can move your safety program from Results-Based to Behavior-Based Safety.

The move involves understanding what motivates behavior, utilization of consequences, practicing the seven steps of performance coaching, creating accurate safety campaigns, and defining evidence of a healthy Behavior-Based Safety program—this is the other side of safety.

Defines the four major motivations, explains how they work, and how safety leaders can use the right motivation for the right person to help them practice safe behavior.

Explains how to maximize the impact of reinforcement consequences and minimize punitive consequences in a way that is aligned with an individual's motivation.

Implements the seven steps of performance coaching conversations, how safety and business leaders can model fluency and frequency to shape behavior to habit strength.

Provides clearly defined evidence of a healthy Behavior-Based Safety program by measuring outcome like locus of control, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-actualization.

Highlights the distinction between Results-Based Safety (RBS) anecdotal practices from the science of Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) methodology.

Showcases how the distinct difference between a mechanistic and organic culture, and how the four phenomena can be utilized to drive safety culture on purpose.

Discusses the importance of expanding from lagging indicators to leading indicators for robust metrics and predictability.

Weight: 378g
Dimension: 160 x 242 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032365565