NSC President & CEO Debbie Hersman and football legend Terry Bradshaw will kick off the 2016 NSC Congress & Expo in Anaheim, California. Bradshaw, co-host of Fox NFL Sunday and Hersman, President & CEO of the National Safety Council, will speak during the opening session on Monday, Oct. 17 from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
If a client came to us saying, “We know we have some leadership and culture issues: upward communication is poor, skill level of supervisors and managers in inconsistent, our people don’t un-derstand system thinking, and behavioral reliability is sketchy. We want to develop a high performance culture. How should we approach it?”
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 1 out of every 3 deaths in the United States, making it the leading cause of death. CVD illness and death accounts for an estimated $120 billion dollars of lost productivity in the workplace.
The science of behavior has evolved to a point where behavior-based safety (BBS) has become a core element for many companies. Andrew Sharman looks back at its roots and ponders where we go from here.
To reduce incidents and create a culture of safety in the workplace, many leading companies are adopting behavior-based safety (BBS) programs that encourage a personal responsibility for safety.
Google the phrase “stupid unsafe acts” and you get about 174,000 results. That’s a bit scary. Included are links to “People Doing Stupid Things,” “Stupid Human Beings Doing Unsafe Things” and “Hilarious pictures from around the world show workmen who somehow cheated death.”
