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People Based Safety Articles

Behavior Based Safety (BBS) & Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)

SPS Articles by E. Scott Geller, Ph.D. & Safety Performance Solutions

Welcome to the Internet's most comprehensive source of People Based Safety articles. Enjoy!

Practical Articles:

• Addressing Ergonomic Hazards through Behavioral Observation and Feedback.pdf
• Behavioral Safety (BBS) Case Study with Ensign.pdf
• Behavioral Safety (BBS) Improves Safety Culture.pdf
• Behavior Based Safety - The Next Step in Injury Prevention.pdf
• Beyond Observation and Feedback - Integrating Behavioral Safety Principles into Other Safety Management Systems.pdf
• Case Study - A Tale of Safety.pdf
• Case Study - Employee-Driven Behavioral Change Improves Safety at Olympic National Park.pdf
• Case Study - Koch Refining Uses Total Safety Culture Principles to Improve Safety.pdf
• Case Study - Peer-to-Peer and Self Observations Assist Law Enforcement at Olympic National Park.pdf
• Case Study - Pool California Employees Take Charge of Safety with a Behavior Based Safety Approach.pdf
• Case Study - Wisconsin Electric's - The Human Factor.pdf
• Communication Strategies
• Communication Strategies for Achieving a Total Safety Culture.pdf
• Creating a Culture Where Employees Own Safety.pdf
• Critical Success Factors Grant Report.pdf
• Employees Forgot Their Hard Hats Again, in Safety and Health, October 2000.pdf
• Getting Open Participation in Incident Analysis Interviewing.pdf
• Improving Management Support for Safety to Optimize Safety Culture.pdf
• Improving Safety Communication.pdf
• Increasing Employee Engagement for Safety.pdf
• Leadership.pdf
• Nabors Case Study 1.pdf
• Nabors Case Study 2.pdf
• Optimizing the Safety Culture.pdf
• People-Based Safety.pdf
• Performing up to Par.pdf
• Personality Styles which Impact Safety.pdf
• Social Comparison and Behavioral Safety.pdf
• Using People Based Safety and Behavior Based Safety to Improve Safety Culture and Performance.pdf
• What's Your Safety IQ - Personality Traits and Person States Related to Injury Prevention.pdf

Theoretical Articles:

• An Actively Caring Model for Occupational Safety.pdf
• Applications of Behavioral Science to Improve Mine Safety.pdf
• Behavior-Based Interventions for Occupational Safety - Critical Impact of Social Comparison Feedback.pdf
• Critical Success Factors for Behavior Based Safety - A NIOSH Study of 20 Industry-Wide Applications.pdf
• Effects of Employee Involvement on Behavior Based Safety.pdf
• Improving Occupational Safety & Health Interventions - A Comparison of Safety Self-Efficacy & Safety Stages of Change.pdf
• Predicting Propensity to Actively Care for Occupational Safety.pdf
• Researching Behavior Based Safety- A Multi Method Assessment and Evaluation.pdf

ISHN Articles by E. Scott Geller, Ph.D., Senior Partner SPS

2009

• The Last Lecture.pdf
• The Spirit of Worldwide Leadership.pdf
• The Equity for Human Performance.pdf
• Equity and Personality.pdf

2008

• The CEU's of personality structure and change.pdf
• Don't be fooled by a typology label.pdf
• How can we ready a culture for interdependency.pdf
• Cultivating an Actively Caring Culture.pdf
• Healing after our darkest hours.pdf
• How can we ready a culture for interdependency.pdf
• How to Find a Silver Lining.pdf
• How to get More Engagement for Safety.pdf
• Lessons from the guru of social influence.pdf
• Lessons learned from a consulting failure.pdf

2007

• A vision for the New Year.pdf
• Actively Caring Leadership Takes Courage.pdf
• Courage and Culture.pdf
• Is Safety Leadership Your Calling.pdf
• Leadership after a Tradgedy.pdf
• Leadership and the knowledge worker.pdf
• Personality and Behavioral Consequences.pdf
• Putting True Colors to Work.pdf
• Self-Directed vs. Other-Directed Safety.pdf
• Self Confidence Gone Awry.pdf
• The Directing and Motivating Role of Leadership-related Data.pdf
• True Colors Personality.pdf

2006

• Does Punishment Ever Fit The Crime - A Quick-Fix Reactive Mindset Prevents Corrective Action.pdf
• Interpersonal Trust - What is it and how can it be increased.pdf
• Overview of PBS versus Behavioral Safety (BBS) - ASSE-PDC-2006.pdf
• Positive Reinforcement, Reward, and Recognition - Critical Distinctions and a Reality Check.pdf
• Slowing Down is Tough for Some - Are you a Type A Person.pdf
• The Benefits of a Behavioral Approach to Safety Part 1.pdf
• The Benefits of a Behavioral Approach to Safety Part 2.pdf
• The Power of Interpersonal Communication - Differential Impact of Five Types of Conversation.pdf

2005

• Getting More Involvement in 05 - Top ten list of lessons learned.pdf
• Good-to-Great - Professional Safety - August 2005.pdf
• Good-To-Great Leadership - What Does it Take.pdf
• No Longer Cancer-Free - The Challenge to Avoid Failure Acceptance.pdf
• People-Based Safety - Embracing Empowerment, Ownership, and Interpersonal Trust.pdf
• The Acting Component of People-Based Safety - Distinctions from Behavior Based Safety.pdf
• The Coaching of People-Based Safety - Key to Advancing Beyond a Performance Plateau.pdf
• What's on Your Mind - The Thinking of People-Based Safety.pdf
• What's Your Perception - The Seeing Component of People-Based Safety.pdf
• When Do Safety Trinkets Improve Behavior - Itís in the Rationale and Delivery.pdf
• When Will We Ever Learn - Safety Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.pdf
• World Class in Safety - Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog.pdf
• World Class in Safety - What Does it Take.pdf

2004

• A Universal New Year's Resolution - Take Personal Responsibility for Safety.pdf
• Are you a Success Seeker or a Failure Avoider.pdf
• Don't Shortcut the Moment.pdf
• Empathy for the Wage Worker - Implications for Industrial Safety.pdf
• Entitlement Thinking - A Barrier to People Accepting Personal Responsibility for Safety.pdf
• How Do You Ask - Strategies for Always Seeking Knowledge2.pdf
• Personality and Industrial Safety - The Search for Practical Connections.pdf
• Personality, Perception, and Paradigm Shifts - Dynamic Connections for Industrial Safety and Health.pdf
• The Anxiety of Safety - A Positive Connection.pdf
• The Big Five Personality Traits - Genetic and Inherited Determinants of Behavior.pdf
• The Power in Asking - Always Seeking Knowledge.pdf
• Where are the Safety Success Seekers.pdf

2003

• Are We Having Fun Yet - Putting More Positive Into Injury Prevention.pdf
• Developing A Critical Behavior Checklist - Behavioral Inconvenience.pdf
• Developing A Critical Behavior Checklist - Behavioral Risk.pdf
• Guidelines for Managing Participation in Behavior-Based Coaching.pdf
• Is Your Safety Integral - Value-Based Behaviors are not Added Requirements.pdf
• Keys to Increasing Participation in an Occupational Safety Process.pdf
• Pay Attention - Critical But Incomplete Advice.pdf
• Prevailing Over Safety Challenges - What I Learned from Cancer Survival.pdf
• Safety Lessons from Down Under.pdf
• The Soft Side of Psychology - You Gotta Have Heart.pdf
• Why We Donít Actively Care Enough - A Destructive Cycle of Self-Deception.pdf
• Yield the Right-of-Way - A Most Important Resolution for the New Year.pdf

2002

• Yield the Right-of-Way - A Most Important Resolution for the New Year.pdf
• Cancer and Occupational Injury - Some Instructive Connections.pdf
• Fueling Participation with Seven Principles from Social Psychology.pdf
• The Psychology of Airport Security - A Need for Involvement from Safety Professionals.pdf
• How to Get More Involvement in Industrial Safety and Health - Part III.pdf
• How to Get More Involvement in Industrial Safety and Health - Ten Basic Strategies.pdf
• How to Get More Involvement in Industrial Safety and Health - Ten More Strategies.pdf
• It Was Only About Language, Not a Profession (Root Cause Reaction).pdf
• It's Not Common Sense - Safety Management Requires a Research Perspective.pdf
• Making the Best Out of Opportunities to Teach - Seven Key Principles.pdf
• The Psychology of Recovery - What I Learned after Cancer Surgery.pdf
• The Root-Cause Myth (Large File).pdf
• The Space Between Stimulus and Response.pdf

2001

• Can Performance Appraisals Build Competence.pdf
• Context, Contingencies, and Self-Persuasion.pdf
• Designing an Effective Fear Appeal.pdf
• Our Need for Competence Fuels Safety Participation.pdf
• Scared Safe.pdf
• Selling People on Change.pdf
• Sources of Bias in Performance Appraisals.pdf
• The Art of Self-Persuasion.pdf
• The Power of Indirect Persuasion.pdf
• Using Performance Objectives and Corrective Feedback.pdf
• We Are What We Do.pdf
• You Must Believe.pdf

2000

• Beyond Safety Awareness and Commitment.pdf
• Do We Measure the Right Stuff.pdf
• Empathic Correction.pdf
• Empathic Leadership.pdf
• Getting Gung Ho About Safety.pdf
• It's Not Safe to Believe in a Just World.pdf
• Should Safe Behavior Become Habitual.pdf
• We Should Sell More Safety than Lottery Tickets.pdf
• Why Don't We Get Involved.pdf

1999

• Are You Mindful or Mindless.pdf
• Behavioral Safety Analysis - Correcting for Skill Discrepancies.pdf
• How to Enhance the Benefit of a Corrective Action Conversation - A True Story.pdf
• Safety Momentum - What is it and how can we get it.pdf
• We Need More Safety Leadership Than Management.pdf

1998

• Behavioral Intervention - Designing the Approach to Fit Your Purpose.pdf
• Preventing Injury with Mental Imagery.pdf
• Rewards and Positive Reinforcers are Not the Same - But We Need Both.pdf
• Teaming Up for Safety.pdf
• The Stages of Teamwork.pdf
• The Value of Teamwork for Behavior Based Safety.pdf
• Understanding Interpersonal Trust.pdf

1997

• Keeping the Faith.pdf
• Meeting the Challenges of Proactive Change.pdf
• Results of a Behavior Based Safety Survey.pdf
• Systems Thinking for Safety.pdf
• The Power of Context.pdf
• The Value of Humor.pdf
• Three Keys to Safety Success.pdf
• Values-Driven Safety.pdf

1996

• A Common Mistake in Behavior-Based Coaching.pdf
• Ask Others for Safety Feedback.pdf
• Balancing External and Internal Control.pdf
• Do We Compensate for Safety.pdf
• Increasing the Impact of Signs and Slogans.pdf
• Making Safety Feedback More Effective.pdf
• Quality Recognition - Key to Safety Improvement.pdf
• Safety Training or Safety Education.pdf
• Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing Behavioral Safety (BBS).pdf
• The Value of Emotional Intelligence.pdf
• When Youíre Not Your Brotherís Keeper.pdf
• Which First - Attitude or Behavior.pdf