Evaluating Behavioral Safety in Construction

Tune in to hear us discuss whether behavioral safety interventions are effective and worthwhile.

Topics:

• We purposely picked a broad topic for this episode.
• Studies on behavioral safety interventions and how they were structured.
• Only one of the studies was done within a more traditional framework.
• Why it’s difficult to track safety in the workplace.
• Getting good evidence by looking more closely at the factors at play.

Quotes:

“Human behavior change is absolutely a science, but behavior-based safety is probably mostly nonsense.”

“In a randomized control trial, every individual is either given or not given the behavioral training…”

“Interventions that are based on theory tend to be more successful.”

Resources:

Mullan, B., Smith, L., Sainsbury, K., Allom, V., Paterson, H., & Lopez, A. L. (2015). Active behaviour change safety interventions in the construction industry: A systematic review. Safety science, 79, 139-148.

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