Behavior Based Safety or Accident Investigation Training?
The two courses sit on opposite sides of an incident. One works on the behaviors before anything happens, the other on what to do once something already has.
- Behavior Based Safety Training for Employees. The page you are on. Observation, feedback, reinforcement and just culture, before an incident happens.
- Accident Investigation. The process after an incident, including root cause analysis and what to do with the findings. View the Accident Investigation
- Safety Awareness for New Employees. The baseline hazard awareness a new hire needs before observing anyone else's work. View the Safety Awareness for New Employees
- Developing a Health and Safety Plan. The written programme a BBS process plugs into, for the person who has to build it. View the Developing a Health and Safety Plan
Which Duty Does Behavior Based Safety Actually Serve?
Buyers always ask whether this course is mandatory. The honest answer runs through two sections of the OSH Act, 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1) and 29 U.S.C. 654(b), and they land on different people.
- The employer duty. Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act, the General Duty Clause, requires each employer to furnish a workplace free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm.
- The employee duty. Section 5(b) is the employee side, and it is narrower than people assume: each employee shall comply with the standards, rules, regulations and orders that apply to their own actions and conduct.
- No BBS standard. No OSHA standard names behavior based safety or sets a syllabus for it, so nothing here is a certification and no card is issued.
- Why it still gets bought. Employers run BBS because observation data reaches the injuries that rules and guards have already stopped preventing, and because a recognized hazard someone keeps walking past is exactly what 5(a)(1) is about.
The course is written for the employee side of that programme, which is why it spends more time on how to say something than on what the law says.
