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..., it is not. 1 7 2022 1 7 2022 1 7 2022 1 7 2022 Copyright 2022, American Society of Safety Professionals operational safety injury experience espoused value group member health & medicine july 2022 psj professional safety july 2022 schein safety safety performance...

... tasked with OSHA recordkeeping decision-making should be insulated from the pressures to sacrifice employee care for the sake of safety performance metrics. _ A few years ago, while working as a safety manager for a midsized regional corporation, the author found herself in a conference room with three...

... tools not commonly found in OSH training programs or reference literature. The aim is to provide OSH professionals with new perspectives that will increase their understanding of issues that may reduce OSH performance. Safety Performance Reducing Issues & Accompanying Conceptual Perspectives...

..., the construction industry significantly contributes to fatal and nonfatal injuries (Niu et al., 2017). Safety culture and safety climate have been suggested as leading indicators that could help improve overall safety performance. The construction industry has been trying to utilize safety culture and climate...

... of an injury is almost entirely random (Salas, 2020). Despite these limitations, TRIR and other lagging safety indicators are still used to make critical business decisions such as comparing business units, evaluating manager performance, prequalifying contractors, tracking safety performance and evaluating...

... significantly correlated with health literacy. * Four safety climate constructs were not significantly correlated with health literacy: 1. safety practices; 2. safety performance; 3. management commitment to safety; and 4. safety knowledge. * Levels of health literacy affect safety behaviors of workers under...

... decimal points of precision. Finally, the analysis revealed that in nearly every practical circumstance, it is statistically invalid to use TRIR to compare companies, business units, projects or teams. Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) has been used as the primary measure of safety performance...

...Rebecca Mullins; Earl Blair; E. Scott Dunlap KEY TAKEAWAYS Research supports the supposition of a strong connection between employee engagement and safety performance. This article emphasizes the importance of getting all employees meaningfully engaged in all aspects of safety. It examines...

...John F. Kowalski; John C. Summers KEY TAKEAWAYS This article provides a systematic thinking approach using human and organizational performance fundamentals and analysis techniques to improve safety performance. The techniques described apply to individuals, leaders and the overall organization...

... safety social relationship safety culture incident work environment carder psychologist positive psychology supervisor kahneman safety performance assp.org SEPTEMBER 2019 PROFESSIONAL SAFETY PSJ 35 SAFETY CULTURE Peer-Reviewed KEY TAKEAWAYS The happiness factor is real and it really works...

... when discussing their individual performance with their managers. Although many organizations are using a balanced scorecard approach to assessing safety performance (e.g., using both leading and lagging indicators), it is not certain that individual safety professional performance is being similarly...

...Fred Straub Key Takeaways Leading indicators are a well-documented component of occupational safety and health management systems to evaluate OSH performance. This two-part article presents research that examines the use of leading ergonomic safety performance indicators in the American workplace...

... that BBS overemphasizes employee behavior and ignores system factors contributing to injuries and fatalities. This article reviews both approaches and demonstrates how HOP and BBS should be viewed as complementary, not competing philosophies to improve safety performance. Both behavior-based safety (BBS...

...Fred Straub Key Takeaways Leading indicators are a well-documented component of occupational safety and health management systems to evaluate OSH performance. This two-part article presents research that examines the use of leading ergonomic safety performance indicators in the American workplace...

...Linda F. Martin; Jan K. Wachter Key Takeaways Mindfulness has been applied increasingly to stress and wellness management; however, its importance to the practice of safety is just becoming recognized. Mindfulness fosters positive attributes linked with enhanced task-specific safety performance...

...Sang D. Choi; Sathy Rajendran; Kwangseog Ahn In Brief This study evaluated the impact of stretch-and-flex (SF) programs on construction worker safety and health by comparing construction firms' safety performance/injury rates before and after the implementation of workplace SF programs. Sprain...

...) and already apply it to their safety programs. This improvement method can be accomplished by measuring and tracking trends in safety performance using key performance indicators (KPIs). KPIs generally fall into two categories: leading and lagging indicators. Lagging indicators are considered reactive because...

... define the culture and the system of expected performance " (p. 144). The safety measures chosen promote management's expectations regarding safety performance. When these measures are well executed, they have a powerful influence on the development of an organization's safety culture (Blair...

... employees safe and healthy consists of much more than basic compliance measures such as guarding machinery or wearing PPE. Although these and other directly related safety and health activities are vitally important to employee welfare, optimal safety performance encompasses far more than OSHA regulations...