Risky Behavior
Understanding and identifying risk-taking behavior is a key element to improving safety in your workplace.
- Does your organization unknowingly reinforce or reward employees who routinely practice risky behavior?
- Are risk-takers known throughout your organization as the “can-do” employees?
- Are shortcuts built in to your standard operating procedures?
Identify Unsafe Condition vs. Unsafe Action
- Example of an unsafe condition: Broken or uneven pavement on walkways
- Example of an unsafe action: Standing on scaffold railing / Removing guard to work on equipment while it is running
Identify Unsafe Short-cuts
- Are safety procedures being by-passed to save time?
- Example: Using a chair instead of a ladder to extend your reach
Identify Unsafe Habits
- Example: Wearing PPE only when supervision is present
- Example: Locking energy sources and not testing to confirm Lock Out
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Start Today - Make Safety a Way of Life
- Empower your workforce to recognize hazards and risk taking
- Notice, recognize, and reinforce the smallest positive change