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Behavior-based safety
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<p>Behavior-based safety (BBS) is the "application of science of behavior change to real world <a href="/facts/Safety/jyH5HLSg">safety</a> problems". or "A process that creates a safety partnership between <a href="/facts/Management/8KMV9yMM">management</a> and <a href="/facts/Employment/pqEUAhNv">employees</a> that continually focuses people's attentions and actions on theirs, and others, daily safety behavior." BBS "focuses on what people do, analyzes why they do it, and then applies a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what people do". At its very core BBS is based on a larger scientific field called <a href="/facts/Organizational_behavior_management/gPYoo8Em">organizational behavior management</a>. </p><p>In a safety management system based upon the <a href="/facts/Hierarchy_of_hazard_control/D3fF3wFv">hierarchy of hazard control</a>, BBS may be applied to internalise <a href="/facts/Hazard/09kGfaao">hazard</a> avoidance strategies or <a href="/facts/Administrative_controls/KF75achN">administrative controls</a> (including use of <a href="/facts/Personal_protective_equipment/DF3oEH6B">personal protective equipment</a>), but should not be used in preference to the implementation of reasonably practicable safety measures further up the hierarchy. </p><p>To be successful a BBS program must include all employees, from the <a href="/facts/Chief_executive_officer/mg4A8y5M">CEO</a> to the <a href="/facts/Key_worker/tE4ltYoc">front line workers</a> including hourly, salary, union employees, contractors and sub-contractors. To achieve changes in behavior, a change in policy, procedures and/or systems most assuredly will also need some change. Those changes cannot be done without buy-in and support from all involved in making those decisions. </p><p>BBS is not based on assumptions, personal feeling, and/or <a href="/facts/Common_knowledge/PUKpL9K6">common knowledge</a>. To be successful, the BBS program used must be based on <a href="/facts/Scientific_knowledge/IJoaD7rs">scientific knowledge</a>. </p>