Behavioral-Based Safety Plans Can Keep Ambulances Away
The jury is still out on the success of the new safety program at the massive CityCenter project in Las Vegas, but at least people have stopped dying there. That is good news for general contractor Perini Building Co., project owner MGM Mirage and the industry as a whole. Safety is never easy, but when you have almost 10,000 workers on-site, it is essential to have and enforce a comprehensive safety plan.
Behavioral-based safety (BBS) plans seem to work best in such environments, where thousands of workers and hundreds of subcontractors try to construct many project elements simultaneously. The basic components of a BBS program are common goals involving labor and management, a definition of what is expected in terms of target behavior, collection of observational data, safety decision-making based on the data, feedback to employees being observed and management review.