Behavior-Based Safety Overview
Learning objectives
- Define behavior-based safety and its key terms
- Describe why a behavior-based safety program matters to both employees and companies
- Identify methods and tools used to eliminate hazards and prevent injuries on the job
- Identify the steps involved in a behavior-based safety program
Course overview
Accidents and injuries have both a human and a business cost, so it is advantageous for employees to practice safe behaviors and mitigate unsafe behaviors in the workplace. This lesson introduces behavior-based safety concepts to employees and creates awareness around what influences employees to change unsafe behaviors before an accident or injury happens.
- 7 Minutes
- English, Spanish
Course Outline
- Behavior-Based Safety Overview
Regulations
- Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Section 5(a)(1), General Duty Clause
- American National Standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (ANSI) Z10-2012