Workshop 3: Introduction to Behavioral Safety

What is behavioral safety and what does it mean to an organization? If you are just embarking upon or are currently in the initial stages of this type of safety process, you will learn the basic elements of behavioral safety and the steps involved in its implementation. This informative session will answer questions such as:

1) How does behavioral safety differ from traditional safety programs?
2) What comprises a behavioral safety program?
3) How does a company implement a behavioral safety program?
4) What role does management play?
5) How can the observation process best be established?

Presenter

Angelica C. Grindle, Ph.D.

  • Project Manager with Quality Safety Edge, a company that specializes in the application of behavioral technology to employee driven safety and quality improvement efforts.
  • Over six years experience successfully designing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral and process improvement systems in a wide variety of organizational settings.

Projects include:

  • Innovative training, feedback, and reward systems
  • Cross-business unit process redesign
  • Strategic organizational design

Clients include:

  • Archer Daniels Midland
  • Alticor Corporation
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Menasha Corporation
  • Georgia Pacific
  • Lear Seating
  • Borgess Hospital

 

  • A presenter at local and national conferences and author of articles appearing in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Contributor to The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety by Terry McSween.
  • A member of the Association for Behavior Analysis and the Organizational Behavior Management Network.
  • Recipient of numerous scholarly awards.
  • M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Western Michigan University.
  • Ph.D., Applied Behavior Analysis, Western Michigan University.

 

 


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