The Values-Based Safety Process : Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety [Hardcover]

Terry E. McSween (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471286729 | ISBN-13: 978-0471286721 | Publication Date: March 8, 1995 | Edition: 1

" [The Values-Based Safety Process] teaches both the mechanics of how to design and implement a behavioral safety process in any organization, and the importance of creating an environment where everyone actively cares about their fellow employees and associates... It will help you make a difference in your organization." -- E. Scott Geller Behavioral Safety Expert The Values-Based Safety Process Improving Your Safety Culture with a Behavioral Approach by Terry E. McSween There' s been a lot written in the past few years about the theoretical aspects of behavioral safety. Safety professionals like you, however, have been looking for guidance on how you can put these sound ideas into practice to make your company safer and more productive. Finally, with the arrival of Terry McSween' s The Values-Based Safety Process, that guidance is here. For the first time, at your fingertips, are all the basic tools and step-by-step procedures you' ll require to design and implement an effective, ongoing behavioral safety approach that' s tailored to fit your company' s specific operations and needs. This unique handbook incorporates the key concepts of organizational change and continuous improvement into this modern and practical values-based program. Packed with worksheets, checklists, and decision guidelines designed to help you expedite the creation of a results-producing behavioral safety process, this handbook shows you how to: define and establish basic interpersonal values and pinpoint safety practices and behaviors that exemplify those valuesaccurately assess your company' s current safety posturebuild management support for the new value-addedsafety processgather and analyze the information necessary for safety planningcreate safety teams and safety incentive programsenhance feedback and involvement procedures to troubleshoot problems and maintain employee supportensure continuation of the behavioral safety processAn essential working reference for every executive, manager, supervisor, and safety professional who' s responsible for the well-being of employees in the nation' s industrial manufacturing and processing plants, The Values-Based Safety Process will enable you to dramatically improve safety, boost worker morale, reduce on-the-job injuries, and strengthen your company' s bottom line.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“...application of behavioral science to safety is stressed throughout the text....the overall value the book in promoting behavioral safety.” (Chemical Health & Safety, November/December 2003) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover

A concise and practical guide for establishing safety in the workplace

The values-based safety process uses a behavioral science approach to create ground rules for the types of interpersonal relationships preferred by an organization. Now in its second edition, The Values-Based Safety Process will provide readers with all the basic tools and step-by-step procedures needed to design and implement an effective, ongoing behavioral safety approach that is tailored to fit any company. With the help of new case studies, updated examples, and six new chapters, Terry McSween will demonstrate how to:

• Conduct a safety assessment using a simple five-step plan
• Establish mission, values, and milestone targets
• Develop feedback and involvement guidelines
• Implement and maintain the behavioral safety process
• Create a serious-incident prevention process

Managers, supervisors, safety professionals, and employees who participate in safety functions in the nation’s industrial manufacturing and processing plants will find Terry McSween’s book to be an essential working reference. It will show how to develop processes that will dramatically improve safety, boost worker morale, reduce on-the-job injuries, and strengthen any company’s bottom line. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471286729
• ISBN-13: 978-0471286721
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,147,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Cultu, October 30, 2001

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John J Turner (Nacogdoches, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Values-Based Safety Process : Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety (Hardcover)

I reviewed this book along with four others by other BBS consultant authors and I find this to be the best. Terry McSween has written a very usable book complete with forms, checklists. and essential elements necessary for doing your own process, if you are intending to anyway. I also found the section on safety incentives to be very helpful and neccessary. One is likely to do a poor BBS implementation unless they address the important organizational interface between the popular but controversial safety rewards programs and a new BBS effort. McSween's appreciation for manufacturing organizational cultures seems to me to be on the mark.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Process Employees Like the Best, February 19, 2006

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Cosmic Drifter (Lake Oconee, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety (Hardcover)

I have worked in this field for several years and observed Fortune 500 companies in every phase of implementing behavior-based safety into their organizations. I have witnessed first hand all of the major consulting companies installing BBS initiatives using the books of other authors in this field. I can unequivocally recommend Dr. McSween's book as the most successful and practical.

Above all, Dr. McSween has used his 20 years of hand-on safety consulting experience to design a behavior-based safety process that incorporates employees into the design and implementation of the process - and thereby creates all the necessary elements of acceptance and long range success. Unlike other BBS methodologies, Dr. McSweens process allows employee design teams to integrate BBS into the existing safety culture in a mannner that ensures its strengths will be sustained and effective.

Dr. McSween has used his clients feedback and his experience to design a process that minimizes administrative busy work and time off the job, yet includes the powerful tools and activites that BBS brings to the safety management process. Above all, Dr. McSween is a professional widely known for his integrity and client dedication - traits that are reflected in the honesty and practicality of his book.

After many years in the BBS business as an employee of Dr. McSweens competitors, I can truthfully say that Dr. McSween's book and his process are the most successful and that Dr. McSween is the best BBS consultant practicing in America today.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An important reading for safety professionals., September 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Values-Based Safety Process : Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety (Hardcover)

This is undoubtedly one of the best books in the area of behavioral safety. Dr. McSween provides a thorough guideline that safety professionals can use to implement a sound system for behavior change in their organizations. The reader is introduced to the basic concepts of behavior analysis, the proven techniques of applied behavior analysis, and relevant research in the area of behavioral safety. This ensures that the focus of safety efforts is on employees' safe behaviors and the environment that maintains such behaviors, which is critical because without such focus behavior change will not be achieved.