Sustaining safe performance and effective BBS programs are major challenges. CCBS Behavioral Safety Accreditation can help you meet that challenge.
CCBS accreditation recognizes your outstanding safety performance and tells the world about what your company has done. For your employees it becomes a source of pride and the valuable intangible reinforcers that sustain safe performance.
This workshop will describe the value of CCBS accreditation to employees and other stakeholders, including customers. We will review accreditation methods and standards, and show data on the behavioral safety practices among companies who are accredited. You will have opportunities to discuss behavioral safety programs in your company and learn how to assess the readiness of your programs for accreditation. We will discuss case examples of companies, such as the Acetate Fibers Division of Eastman Chemical, that have sustained long term success in their BBS programs.
You may wish to bring data on safety programs and performance, such as graphs of OSHA recordables over recent years. Dwight, Tim and Mark will give you recommendations and guidance to help your company plan and prepare for an accreditation site visit.
Presenters
Mark P. Alavosius, Ph.D.
Mark P. Alavosius, Ph.D. is assistant professor of psychology in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his BA in psychology from Clark University in 1976 and earned his MS (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
As President of MPA & Associates, Inc., Dr. Alavosius works with specialists in instructional design, multi-media interactive systems, software development, business strategy, and performance management to develop and provide behavioral systems to improve performance in business and industry. He held faculty appointments in the Behavior Analysis and Industrial/Organizational Program at Western Michigan University and the Behavior Analysis Program at West Virginia University. His interests are in developing behavioral and instructional systems to improve work performance particularly in the areas of health and safety.
Dr. Alavosius has a proven track record with NIOSH as a recipient of Small Business Innovations Research Grants to develop and test behavioral safety technologies. With over twenty years of experience in behavioral approaches to work performance and occupational health & safety, Dr. Alavosius has over 100 publications and conference presentations.
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Tim Ludwig, Ph.D.
Tim Ludwig earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech researching the benefits of employee-driven behavior based safety programs under E. Scott Geller. Dr. Ludwig is a full professor at Appalachian State University where he was named a University Deans’ Distinguished Graduate Faculty for his contributions to the nationally recognized Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management Masters program. Dr. Ludwig’s teaching has been recognized with the North Carolina University Board of Governors’ Excellence in Teaching award and he has been inducted into Appalachian State University’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers.
Dr. Ludwig is currently serving as the President of the Organizational Behavior Management Network and the current editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles that empirically document the successes of methods to improve safety and quality in industry through behavior-based management. His book Intervening to Improve the Safety of Occupational Driving reviews 10 years of behavior-based safety in the product delivery industry. His upcoming book, Best-in-Class Safety benchmarks how companies with the best safety records succeed. Dr. Ludwig serves on the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies’ Behavioral Safety Accreditation Board that reviews best-in-industry safety practices and offers independent, objective feedback on safety programs.
Within his consulting practice at Safety Performance Solutions, Dr. Ludwig has helped design, deliver, and implement safety programs at Corning, Albany International, TRW Automotive, Eastman Chemicals, Domino’s Pizza, Carolina Medical Center, Kimberly Clarke, Connectiv Energy, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), SuperValue, and Nucor Steel. He has continued this research for two decades integrating his empirical findings into his safety consulting. He also has provided his expertise in TQM, strategic planning, and human resources development to numerous private and government organizations over the past 15 years. Clients include the US Navy-Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), US Department of Energy, US Department of the Interior, National Grocers of Canada, the Deaconess Hospital System, Boyles Furniture, and Alex Lee Inc. of North Carolina.
Dr. Ludwig’s recent keynote presentations include speeches at International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention, A Coruna, Spain; AmCham’s Health Safety and Environment Conference & Exhibition, Trinidad; Behavioral Safety Now, Kansas City, MO.; and the Behavior Management Training Leadership Conference, Darington, United Kingdom.