Talk:Behavior-based safety

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Behavior Based Safety is not a program that your site should implement on it's own. Anytime you use a psychology based program in your facility it should be done by someone with experience, who is PhD level psychologist- an I/O an industrial organizational psychologist and one who has been trained specifically in BBS implementation. Otherwise you might be putting your workforce at more risk. It may look easy to follow the steps outlined in many BBS books and publications and you can certainly try some of the components but you will find that it is not as effective or long lasting as a BBS program that is created by an I/O specifically for your site and culture. A good BBS program is neither “too long or too costly” – an excellent BBS program can be done by a single I/0 who should be “ the least expensive part of the program” . The most expensive part of any BBS program is the downtime for your workers to be taken off production and get training. To avoid excessive downtime costs, we recommend a BBS program which can be implemented and get started within 3 days or less. Excessive personalized soft-ware costs and repeated site visits are not necessary and an excellent I/O will be able to tell you in advance how active he or she should be in helping you maintain your program.

Promotional and self-promotional stuff

a) the above is clearly from some promotional stuff

b) I have just reverted a couple of edits. I did so with some reluctance because they seemed to show a slightly greater awareness than some BBS merchants of the need for employers to provide a safe working environment before they start telling their employees that they have a common purpose to get the accident rate down by the workers acting safely. However, when the additional text quotes Tim Marsh and has been inserted by user TimMarsh it does seem to be a bit too blatant. Looking back user DrTimMarsh does seem to have made similar self-referential edits in the past - from which I see he is a UK safety practioner. I would suggest that if his views are common currency, there must surely be other authors he could reference as advancing them; if not, however sensible they may be, they look much like original research Rjccumbria (talk) 16:38, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]