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SPS Articles by E. Scott Geller, Ph.D. & Safety Performance Solutions

Welcome to the Internet’s most comprehensive source of Behavior-Based Safety articles. Below is our collection of Behavior-Based Safety Articles and some People-Based Safety Articles. If you have any questions or would like more information, please feel free to contact us and we would be pleased to talk with you.

Check back regularly for the latest information from the innovators of Behavior-Based Safety. Enjoy!

Practical Articles:

• Addressing Ergonomic Hazards through Behavioral Observation and Feedback.pdf
• Behavior-Based Safety - The Next Step in Injury Prevention.pdf
• Beyond Observation and Feedback - Integrating Behavioral Safety Principles into Other Safety Management Systems.pdf
• Case Study - A Tale of Safety.pdf
• Case Study - Employee-Driven Behavioral Change Improves Safety at Olympic National Park.pdf
• Case Study - Koch Refining Uses Total Safety Culture Principles to Improve Safety.pdf
• Case Study - Peer-to-Peer and Self Observations Assist Law Enforcement at Olympic National Park.pdf
• Case Study - Pool California Employees Take Charge of Safety with a Behavior-Based Safety Approach.pdf
• Case Study - Wisconsin Electric's - The Human Factor.pdf
• Employees Forgot Their Hard Hats Again, in Safety and Health, October 2000.pdf
• Performing up to Par.pdf
• What's Your Safety IQ - Personality Traits and Person States Related to Injury Prevention.pdf

Theoretical Articles:

• An Actively Caring Model for Occupational Safety.pdf
• Applications of Behavioral Science to Improve Mine Safety.pdf
• Behavior-Based Interventions for Occupational Safety - Critical Impact of Social Comparison Feedback.pdf
• Critical Success Factors for Behavior-Based Safety - A NIOSH Study of 20 Industry-Wide Applications.pdf
• Effects of Employee Involvement on Behavior-Based Safety.pdf
• Improving Occupational Safety & Health Interventions - A Comparison of Safety Self-Efficacy & Safety Stages of Change.pdf
• Predicting Propensity to Actively Care for Occupational Safety.pdf
• Researching Behavior-Based Safety- A Multi Method Assessment and Evaluation.pdf

ISHN Articles by E. Scott Geller, Ph.D., Senior Partner SPS

2006

• Does Punishment Ever Fit The Crime - A Quick-Fix Reactive Mindset Prevents Corrective Action.pdf
• Interpersonal Trust - What is it and how can it be increased.pdf
• Overview of PBS versus BBS - ASSE-PDC-2006.pdf
• Positive Reinforcement, Reward, and Recognition - Critical Distinctions and a Reality Check.pdf
• Slowing Down is Tough for Some - Are you a Type A Person.pdf
• The Benefits of a Behavioral Approach to Safety Part 1.pdf
• The Benefits of a Behavioral Approach to Safety Part 2.pdf
• The Power of Interpersonal Communication - Differential Impact of Five Types of Conversation.pdf

2005

• Getting More Involvement in 05 - Top ten list of lessons learned.pdf
• Good-to-Great - Professional Safety - August 2005.pdf
• Good-To-Great Leadership - What Does it Take.pdf
• No Longer Cancer-Free - The Challenge to Avoid Failure Acceptance.pdf
• People-Based Safety - Embracing Empowerment, Ownership, and Interpersonal Trust.pdf
• The Acting Component of People-Based Safety - Distinctions from Behavior-Based Safety.pdf
• The Coaching of People-Based Safety - Key to Advancing Beyond a Performance Plateau.pdf
• What's on Your Mind - The Thinking of People-Based Safety.pdf
• What's Your Perception - The Seeing Component of People-Based Safety.pdf
• When Do Safety Trinkets Improve Behavior - Itís in the Rationale and Delivery.pdf
• When Will We Ever Learn - Safety Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.pdf
• World Class in Safety - Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog.pdf
• World Class in Safety - What Does it Take.pdf

2004

• A Universal New Year's Resolution - Take Personal Responsibility for Safety.pdf
• Are you a Success Seeker or a Failure Avoider.pdf
• Don't Shortcut the Moment.pdf
• Empathy for the Wage Worker - Implications for Industrial Safety.pdf
• Entitlement Thinking - A Barrier to People Accepting Personal Responsibility for Safety.pdf
• How Do You Ask - Strategies for Always Seeking Knowledge2.pdf
• Personality and Industrial Safety - The Search for Practical Connections.pdf
• Personality, Perception, and Paradigm Shifts - Dynamic Connections for Industrial Safety and Health.pdf
• The Anxiety of Safety - A Positive Connection.pdf
• The Big Five Personality Traits - Genetic and Inherited Determinants of Behavior.pdf
• The Power in Asking - Always Seeking Knowledge.pdf
• Where are the Safety Success Seekers.pdf

2003

• Are We Having Fun Yet - Putting More Positive Into Injury Prevention.pdf
• Developing A Critical Behavior Checklist - Behavioral Inconvenience.pdf
• Developing A Critical Behavior Checklist - Behavioral Risk.pdf
• Guidelines for Managing Participation in Behavior-Based Coaching.pdf
• Is Your Safety Integral - Value-Based Behaviors are not Added Requirements.pdf
• Keys to Increasing Participation in an Occupational Safety Process.pdf
• Pay Attention - Critical But Incomplete Advice.pdf
• Prevailing Over Safety Challenges - What I Learned from Cancer Survival.pdf
• Safety Lessons from Down Under.pdf
• The Soft Side of Psychology - You Gotta Have Heart.pdf
• Why We Donít Actively Care Enough - A Destructive Cycle of Self-Deception.pdf
• Yield the Right-of-Way - A Most Important Resolution for the New Year.pdf

2002

• Yield the Right-of-Way - A Most Important Resolution for the New Year.pdf
• Cancer and Occupational Injury - Some Instructive Connections.pdf
• Fueling Participation with Seven Principles from Social Psychology.pdf
• The Psychology of Airport Security - A Need for Involvement from Safety Professionals.pdf
• How to Get More Involvement in Industrial Safety and Health - Part III.pdf
• How to Get More Involvement in Industrial Safety and Health - Ten Basic Strategies.pdf
• How to Get More Involvement in Industrial Safety and Health - Ten More Strategies.pdf
• It Was Only About Language, Not a Profession (Root Cause Reaction).pdf
• It's Not Common Sense - Safety Management Requires a Research Perspective.pdf
• Making the Best Out of Opportunities to Teach - Seven Key Principles.pdf
• The Psychology of Recovery - What I Learned after Cancer Surgery.pdf
• The Root-Cause Myth (Large File).pdf
• The Space Between Stimulus and Response.pdf

2001

• Can Performance Appraisals Build Competence.pdf
• Context, Contingencies, and Self-Persuasion.pdf
• Designing an Effective Fear Appeal.pdf
• Our Need for Competence Fuels Safety Participation.pdf
• Scared Safe.pdf
• Selling People on Change.pdf
• Sources of Bias in Performance Appraisals.pdf
• The Art of Self-Persuasion.pdf
• The Power of Indirect Persuasion.pdf
• Using Performance Objectives and Corrective Feedback.pdf
• We Are What We Do.pdf
• You Must Believe.pdf

2000

• Beyond Safety Awareness and Commitment.pdf
• Do We Measure the Right Stuff.pdf
• Empathic Correction.pdf
• Empathic Leadership.pdf
• Getting Gung Ho About Safety.pdf
• It's Not Safe to Believe in a Just World.pdf
• Should Safe Behavior Become Habitual.pdf
• We Should Sell More Safety than Lottery Tickets.pdf
• Why Don't We Get Involved.pdf

1999

• Are You Mindful or Mindless.pdf
• Behavioral Safety Analysis - Correcting for Skill Discrepancies.pdf
• How to Enhance the Benefit of a Corrective Action Conversation - A True Story.pdf
• Safety Momentum - What is it and how can we get it.pdf
• We Need More Safety Leadership Than Management.pdf

1998

• Behavioral Intervention - Designing the Approach to Fit Your Purpose.pdf
• Preventing Injury with Mental Imagery.pdf
• Rewards and Positive Reinforcers are Not the Same - But We Need Both.pdf
• Teaming Up for Safety.pdf
• The Stages of Teamwork.pdf
• The Value of Teamwork for Behavior-Based Safety.pdf
• Understanding Interpersonal Trust.pdf

1997

• Keeping the Faith.pdf
• Meeting the Challenges of Proactive Change.pdf
• Results of a Behavior-Based Safety Survey.pdf
• Systems Thinking for Safety.pdf
• The Power of Context.pdf
• The Value of Humor.pdf
• Three Keys to Safety Success.pdf
• Values-Driven Safety.pdf

1996

• A Common Mistake in Behavior-Based Coaching.pdf
• Ask Others for Safety Feedback.pdf
• Balancing External and Internal Control.pdf
• Do We Compensate for Safety.pdf
• Increasing the Impact of Signs and Slogans.pdf
• Making Safety Feedback More Effective.pdf
• Quality Recognition - Key to Safety Improvement.pdf
• Safety Training or Safety Education.pdf
• Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing BBS.pdf
• The Value of Emotional Intelligence.pdf
• When Youíre Not Your Brotherís Keeper.pdf
• Which First - Attitude or Behavior.pdf