Beyond Safety Accountability

E. Scott Geller

doi:10.5771/9781461732334

Summary

Written in an easy-to-read conversational tone, Beyond Safety Accountability explains how to develop an organizational culture that encourages people to be accountable for their work practices and to embrace a higher sense of personal responsibility.

The author begins by thoroughly explaining the difference between safety accountability and safety responsibility. He then examines the need of organizations to improve safety performance, discusses why such performance improvement can be achieved through a continuous safety process, as distinguished from a safety program, and provides the practical tools you can use to build personal responsibility in your workplace.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2001
ISBN-Print: 978-0-86587-893-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-3233-4
Publisher: Government Institutes, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 155
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access Pages 1 - 6
How to Use this Book No access Pages 7 - 8
Chapter 1 - The Foundation - A Review of Behavior-Based Safety Principles No access Pages 9 - 20
1. 1. From Failure to Synergy No access
  2. Relevance to Occupational Safety No access
2. 1. Three Ways to Actively Care No access
  2. Caring Directly or Indirectly No access
  3. An Illustrative Story No access
1. Perceptions of Individual Freedom No access
2. Instructive Research No access
3. 1. Attribution Errors No access
  2. Promote Fact Finding No access
4. The Errors of Punishment No access
5. 1. Input Stage No access
  2. Interpretation & Decision-Making Stage No access
  3. Output Stage No access
6. 1. Capture Errors No access
  2. Description Errors No access
  3. Loss-of-Activation Errors No access
  4. Mode Errors No access
7. The Role of Experience No access
8. Taking Responsibility for Our Errors No access
9. 1. Unconscious Incompetence No access
  2. Conscious Incompetence No access
10. The Futility of Punishment No access
11. Context and Accountability No access
12. Context at Work No access
1. Hold People Accountable for Numbers they can Control No access
2. 1. A Subjective Indicator No access
  2. Inconsistent Reporting No access
  3. Losing Perceived Control No access
3. 1. Safety Goal-Setting No access
  2. Setting Goals Incorrectly No access
  3. Set SMART Goals No access
  4. Practical Examples No access
  5. Vision vs. Goal No access
4. Principle of Shaping No access
5. Develop a Comprehensive Accountability System No access
6. 1. Evaluating Environmental Conditions No access
  2. Evaluating Work Practices No access
  3. Evaluating Person Factors No access
7. Accountability for Near Misses No access
8. 1. The Heinrich Ratio No access
1. Increase Opportunities for Choice No access
2. A Laboratory Study No access
3. From Laboratory to Classroom No access
4. Practical Implications No access
5. Choice for Corporate Safety No access
6. From Choice to Importance No access
7. A Personal Story No access
8. 1. lntrapersonal IQ No access
  2. Interpersonal IQ No access
9. Safety, Emotions, and Impulse Control No access
10. Nurturing Emotional Intelligence No access
1. Increasing Belonging No access
2. Actively Caring States No access
3. 1. Why the Resistance? No access
  2. What is Trust? No access
4. 1. Communication No access
  2. Caring No access
  3. Candor No access
  4. Consistency No access
  5. Commitment No access
  6. Consensus No access
  7. Character No access
1. What is Safety Self-Management? No access
2. From Outside to Inside Direction No access
3. From Outside to Inside Motivation No access
4. The Basics No access
5. Getting Started in Safety Self-Management No access
6. Safety as a Value No access
7. 1. Inconsistent Behavior No access
  2. What Consequences? No access
  3. The Connection No access
8. The Techniques of Safety Self-Management No access
9. 1. Developing a Self-Observation Checklist No access
  2. Using a Self-Observation Checklist No access
10. Intervening for Self-Improvement No access
11. Activator Management No access
12. 1. Self-Instruction No access
  2. Beliefs No access
  3. Interpretations No access
13. Mental Imagery No access
14. Self-Reward No access
15. Goal-Setting No access
16. Social Support No access
17. Commitment No access
18. A Case Study No access
19. Implications No access
Bibliography No access Pages 137 - 140
Glossary No access Pages 141 - 155