The Beginning
It is difficult to pinpoint precisely the beginning of the field of behavior-based safety as it is known today. However, there was a flurry of work starting in the early 1970s. Fox, et. al.[v] worked on open pit mining in Utah starting in 1972 where they showed that with the use of a token economy, improvement in safety results were maintained for over 12 years. Komaki, et.al.,[vi] showed the positive effects of feedback and reinforcement on the safety of bakery workers. Dr. Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, a true pioneer in the field of behavior-based safety, published the first of many articles on behavior-based safety in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management in 1978. The article was titled, “Behavioral ecology and accident prevention.”[vii] Her chapter, “Behavioral Approaches to Occupational Health and Safety,”[viii] in Handbook of Organizational Behavior Management by Fredericksen, remains to this day one of the best explanations of behavior-based safety.
This is by no means an exhaustive history of the early work in the field of behavior-based safety. Many others have contributed substantially to the evolution of the practice. McSween (1995) , a behavior analyst, who authored The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavioral Approach[ix], and Geller, who wrote Working Safe[x] have had a significant impact on the field in the past two decades.
The Beginning
It is difficult to pinpoint precisely the beginning of the field of behavior-based safety as it is known today. However, there was a flurry of work starting in the early 1970s. Fox, et. al.[v] worked on open pit mining in Utah starting in 1972 where they showed that with the use of a token economy, improvement in safety results were maintained for over 12 years. Komaki, et.al.,[vi] showed the positive effects of feedback and reinforcement on the safety of bakery workers. Dr. Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, a true pioneer in the field of behavior-based safety, published the first of many articles on behavior-based safety in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management in 1978. The article was titled, “Behavioral ecology and accident prevention.”[vii] Her chapter, “Behavioral Approaches to Occupational Health and Safety,”[viii] in Handbook of Organizational Behavior Management by Fredericksen, remains to this day one of the best explanations of behavior-based safety.
This is by no means an exhaustive history of the early work in the field of behavior-based safety. Many others have contributed substantially to the evolution of the practice. McSween (1995) , a behavior analyst, who authored The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavioral Approach[ix], and Geller, who wrote Working Safe[x] have had a significant impact on the field in the past two decades.
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