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Kata yang paling sering dipakai kalau berbicara tentang BBS adalah “behavior modification”, tapi apakah kata itu memang benar2 bisa merangkum konsep BBS..?

Nah, saya kutipkan dibawah ini, sedikit abstrak dari tulisannya E Scott Geller berjudul “How to Get More People Involved in Behavior-Based Safety: Selling an Effective Process”

*file abstrak yang lengkapnya terlampir juga di email ini*semoga bermanfaat*

 

 

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Safety professionals commonly use words like “accident,” “mandate,” “compliance,” “regulation,” “investigation,” “occupant restraint,” and “loss control.” Such language certainly limits voluntary participation.  Who wants to get involved in an “accident investigation” that seemingly attempts to find out who didn’t “comply” with some safety “regulation” and therefore contributed to a “loss”?  And who feels good about putting on an “occupant restraint” in order to comply with a corporate “mandate”?

 

What about a common word used to identify the BBS approach – “behavior modification”?  This is obviously the wrong choice of words to use if you want acceptance and involvement from the folks who are to be “modified.”  Who wants to be “modified”?  The term “behavior analysis” is much more appealing and more accurate.  Behavioral safety is an approach for analyzing what needs to be done to make safe behavior more probable and at-risk behavior less probable.  Then, with BBS principles and procedures, line workers are empowered to help each other eliminate barriers to safe behavior and factors that motivate at-risk behavior.

 

In my keynote address for the Behavior Safety Now conference (Geller, 2001a), I used these words: “belief,” “self-esteem,” “self-efficacy,” “self-persuasion,” “actively caring,” “empowerment,” and “belonging.” “actively caring,” “empowerment,” and “belonging.”  Afterwards, a graduate student conducting research in BBS told me she appreciated my use of such language but confessed the professors on her Ph.D. committee would never let her talk that way.  Instead, she had to use terms like “establishing operations” and “rule-governed behavior.”

 

My reaction: If you and your professors really believe these latter behavior analysis terms are more operational and less “cognitive” than the terms I used, then use them among yourselves.  But please make appropriate mindful discriminations when talking outside of your academic circles.  Use language people can relate to as human beings who think and feel, and who like to believe they have dignity, freedom, and personal control beyond the three-term contingency (see Bailey, 1991; Geller, 2001c; and Lindsley, 1991 for more discussion of this language issue).

 

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Best regards,

 

Syamsul Arifin

Field SHE Officer EMP Semberah

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