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The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavior-Based Safety by Terry E. McSween β€” book cover

The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavior-Based Safety

by Terry E. McSween, E. Scott Geller
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Overview

Behavior-Based Safety, based on the work of B.F. Skinner, includes identifying critical behaviors, observing actual behaviors and providing feedback that lead to changed and improve behavior. The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavioral Approach, Second Edition provides a concise and practical guide for implementing a behavior-based safety system within any organization. 

Includes two new chapters on hot topics in behavioral safety, isolated workers, and the role of leadership in supporting behavorial safety.

  • Updated examples of the observation checklist.
  • New case studies covering large plants of 1,200 workers or more.

Synopsis

Behavior-Based Safety, based on the work of B.F. Skinner, includes identifying critical behaviors, observing actual behaviors and providing feedback that lead to changed and improve behavior. The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavioral Approach, Second Edition provides a concise and practical guide for implementing a behavior-based safety system within any organization. 

Includes two new chapters on hot topics in behavioral safety, isolated workers, and the role of leadership in supporting behavorial safety.

  • Updated examples of the observation checklist.
  • New case studies covering large plants of 1,200 workers or more.

About the Author, Terry E. McSween

TERRY E. McSWEEN, PhD, is President and CEO of Quality Safety Edge, a company that specializes in the application of behavioral technology to create employee-driven safety and quality improvement efforts. He is also an active member in several business and professional organizations, including the Board of Trustees for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, the Association for Behavior Analysis, the American Society for Safety Engineers, and the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis.

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β€œ...application of behavioral science to safety is stressed throughout the text....the overall value the book in promoting behavioral safety.” (Chemical Health & Safety, November/December 2003)

Book Details

Published
June 1, 2003
Publisher
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780471220497

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