Part A

1.

What is the BBS approach to safety?

What Is Behavior-Based Safety (BBS)? A behavior-based safety (BBS) approach uses observations of
employees to identify unsafe practices and areas of risk in an organization — and to reinforce safe
practices. In short, it is an audit of the actions and behaviors of people in the workplace.

Is BBS a top down approach?

Behavior-based safety (BBS) focuses on identifying and providing interpersonal feedback for the
critical behaviors that may lead to or prevent injury, analyzing the factors that contribute to critical
safety-related behaviors, and developing interventions to increase the frequency of safe and
decrease the occurrence of at-risk behavior. BBS traditionally involved line-level employees, with
support from the leadership. However, a more comprehensive view of BBS includes identifying,
analyzing, and improving the critical safety-related behaviors of employees at all levels of the
organization, from wageworkers to supervision and executive employees. BBS also considers a full
range of factors that contribute to safe and at-risk behavior, including leadership, physical
environment/conditions, systems, behaviors, employee engagement, and internal person factors.