Behavioral safety program: Creating a new corporate culture

A behavior based safety approach at a Kuwait research institution

“…The Weaver model (1971), the Petersen model (1975), and the Adams model (1976) all place emphasis on management as a prime causative agent (Ray, Purswell, & Bowen, 1989). Petersen (2000) concludes that accident causation has moved from the domino theory to a combination of management system failure and human error, he adds that human error is often caused by a management-created environment that rewards risk-taking.…”

Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work‐related injuries among union carpenters: “You're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work”

“…These programs take many forms [Ray et al, 1993[Ray et al, , 1997Al-Hemoud and Al-Asfoor, 2006;Wirth and Sigurdsson, 2008] and are not without controversy. However, relatively little is known about the prevalence or effects of these programs.…”

From a unidimensional to a bidimensional concept and measurement of workers' safety behavior

“…Taking into account these limitations of previous studies and the current interest in a larger approach to safety behavior, particularly in the context of contemporary resemch on safety culture (3,(12)(13)(14), we think it is important to improve our analytical conceptualization of workers' safety behavior and the validity of our measurement tools for the benefit of both the research community and occupational safety practitioners. This paper reports results from a confirmatory factor analysis of worker behavior in occupational safety among a random sample of 828 manufacturing workers from 9 manufacturing facilities.…”