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Title: The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety
ISBN: 0471220493
Author:
Terry E. McSween
Publicate Date: 2003-06-16
Publish: 2003-06-16
List Price: $116.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: A Wonderful and Enduring Book
Beginning in 1986, I started my career in safety and health management. Beyond the "basic industrial safety classes" being taught at the time, a few innovative and creative individuals were looking at safety and health management in ways beyond making "physical and engineering changes" (a technique that had dominated safety program management since its inception). In 1995, Values-Based Safety Process emerged as a go-to reference for me. It is a wonderful and enduring book!
One of the chapters that I go back to regularly outlines a clear strategy for sustaining the safety management and culture process. Terry's book has endured as a benchmark in our consulting practice and approach to safety management today. I highly endorse and recommend his book, and believe it has helped immensely in the prevention of injuries and illnesses in the workplace.
Steve Thompson, President
Aspen Risk Management Group [...]
Coauthor, Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies
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2: The Process Employees Like the Best
I have worked in this field for several years and observed Fortune 500 companies in every phase of implementing behavior-based safety into their organizations. I have witnessed first hand all of the major consulting companies installing BBS initiatives using the books of other authors in this field. I can unequivocally recommend Dr. McSween's book as the most successful and practical.
Above all, Dr. McSween has used his 20 years of hand-on safety consulting experience to design a behavior-based safety process that incorporates employees into the design and implementation of the process - and thereby creates all the necessary elements of acceptance and long range success. Unlike other BBS methodologies, Dr. McSweens process allows employee design teams to integrate BBS into the existing safety culture in a mannner that ensures its strengths will be sustained and effective.
Dr. McSween has used his clients feedback and his experience to design a process that minimizes administrative busy work and time off the job, yet includes the powerful tools and activites that BBS brings to the safety management process. Above all, Dr. McSween is a professional widely known for his integrity and client dedication - traits that are reflected in the honesty and practicality of his book.
After many years in the BBS business as an employee of Dr. McSweens competitors, I can truthfully say that Dr. McSween's book and his process are the most successful and that Dr. McSween is the best BBS consultant practicing in America today.
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3: The Values-Based Safety Process SECOND EDITION
This is a great, great book. Having studied safety culture management for many years, this is the best book I have seen on the subject. A practical, meat and potato's guide to establishing a successful, high-performance safety culture, with a proven method that absolutely works. McSween holds your hand and takes you right down the road where you need to go with a clear, understandable writing style that starts at the basics and takes you all the way through how to celebrate your success. The second edition has lots of case studies and a great section on safety leadership. Buy this book! Also, read some great safety articles at McSween's website "Quality Safety Edge".
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4: Improving the BBS process?
Dr. McSween's book 'The Values-based Safety Process' was referenced in a paper he co-authored at last June's ASSE Safety Conference. One challenge we face is applying the principles of BBS in a single worker environment - his paper and book have provided us with insights on how we might move forward - with BBS ownership from all levels in our organization. Well worth the investment.
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5: The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Cultu
I reviewed this book along with four others by other BBS consultant authors and I find this to be the best. Terry McSween has written a very usable book complete with forms, checklists. and essential elements necessary for doing your own process, if you are intending to anyway. I also found the section on safety incentives to be very helpful and neccessary. One is likely to do a poor BBS implementation unless they address the important organizational interface between the popular but controversial safety rewards programs and a new BBS effort. McSween's appreciation for manufacturing organizational cultures seems to me to be on the mark.
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