School
School of Public Health
Document Type
Dissertation
Department (new version)
Public Health
Date of Award
2001
Degree Name by School
Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) School of Public Health
Abstract
A behavior-based safety system was instituted in a mid-sized corporation that employed approximately 650 individuals. The intervention consisted of training, observations, and feedback and used a time-series analysis with multiple baseness. One division received the intervention, while two other divisions served as concurrent baseness. Initially, the corporate safety team received training on the behavior-based safety system. They began conducting baseline observations in all three divisions in January 1998. In the division that received the intervention, the safety team began conducting baseline observations in April 1998 and the production personnel began their observations in June 1998. The other two divisional safety teams began observations in August 1998 and March 1999. Safety team members and production personnel conducted observations until April 1999, when the study was concluded. There was a reduction in the number of OSHA-recordable accidents from eight and a half to two in the division that received the intervention. This reduction was not statistically significant, nor was there a statistically significant increase in the corporation's overall percent safe. This lack of statistical significance could have been due to the corporation's initial high percent safe and low rate of accidents. The intervention did produce numerous benefits for production personnel, such as increased discussions of safety, increased awareness regarding safety, and increased attempts to implement safety solutions.
ProQuest Publication Number
ProQuest ID
3001307
ISBN
978-0-493-09905-7
Recommended Citation
Brown, Donald Gary, "Institution of a behavior-based safety system in a mid-sized corporation" (2001). All ETDs from UAB. 7213.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/7213
Comments
DrPH