Behavior Based Model for Organizational Safety Management

The procedures for safety management and their operations in an organization comprise safety programs for the organization. Based on the principles of behavior science that culture shapes managerial behavior, managerial behavior produces individual behavior, safety programs can be structured into a model consisting of three modules, i.e. safety culture, organizational structure and safety procedures. The operation of the model, or the principles of safety management, produces first level interim results, employees' safety related knowledge, safety consciousness and safety habit, second level interim results unsafe behavior and unsafe conditions, and then after that, produces the final outcome safety performance which can be further improved by behavior observation or behavior correction. The quality of the model for safety management or safety program can be quantitatively diagnosed by safety climate survey. Basically, the modeling of safety programs and the contents included in the model sum up the subjects of the discipline safety science and technology, which is the basis for the design of education programs for the discipline.