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Behavior-based Safety: Taming the Lucky Monkey

Apr 4th, 2011 | By Willie Chan | Category: Featured Articles

The clichéd phrase “incidents and accidents are unavoidable” is not acceptable to today’s safety management professional. Everything happens for a reason, including incidents and accidents. For years, safety professionals have been striving to detect, prevent, and eliminate incidents. We tend to assume that the majority of safety incidents are caused by untrained or inexperienced workers. [...]