Proactive behavior-based safety management for construction safety improvement
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Behavior-based safety and occupational risk management.
The behavior-based approach to managing occupational risk and preventing workplace injuries is reviewed. Unlike the typical top-down control approach to industrial safety, behavior-based safety (BBS) provides tools and procedures workers can use to take personal control of occupational risks. Strategies the author and his colleagues have been using for more than a decade to teach BBS to safety ...
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John W. Mroszczyk, Ph.D., P.E., CSP, is president of Northeast Consulting Engineers Inc. in Danvers, MA. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mroszczyk has been an active member of the OSHA Alliance Construction Roundtable. He is a professional mem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Safety Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0925-7535
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2015.01.013