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… New Book from Acclaimed Safety Expert Affirms Frontline Supervisors are Linchpins of Safety Source PR Newswire Link http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-book-from-acclaimed-safety-expert-a… … PR Newswire … New Book from Acclaimed Safety Expert Affirms Frontline Supervisors are Linchpins of Safety …
… and frustrating? In this video, Judy Agnew uncovers the secret to managing millennials alongside other generations and explains why what they want from their environment is a benefit to us all. For more on Millennials, read “ Managing … and frustrating? In this video, Judy Agnew uncovers the secret to managing millennials alongside other generations and explains why what they want from their environment is a benefit to us all. For more on Millennials, read “ Managing …
… that support safety, supervisors identifying and eliminating hazards, EHS professionals providing effective safety training, managers giving clear messages about the importance of safe production, and front-line performers following safety … often organizations fool themselves into thinking that safety behaviors are happening consistently just because they have training, rules, and safety meetings. A few years ago I experienced a clear example of this when an executive of a large transportation company said to me, “What I want to know is how do we prevent an accident like the one we just had where a guy got hurt because he …
… rat emitted a bar press.” Use of the verb “emit” comes from an old distinction in psychology. We learn very early in our training as behavior analysts that there are two types of conditioning: classical, or Pavlovian , conditioning and operant … of a dog is elicited by meat powder. The conditional response is elicited by a (previously) neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with the unconditional stimulus (meat powder, in the classic [so to speak] example). The operative word here is … not because it is “wired” into the nervous system, but because the organism chooses to make it. Thus, the response is said to be emitted and the organism is said to emit a response. In a similar vein, the operant response also is described as …
… Creating an Achievement Culture I have often said, “The best job you will ever have is one where you know at the end of every day how well you have done.” The students … day. Would you be surprised to learn that Morningside gives parents a money-back guarantee? If the student doesn’t gain at least two years in the area of greatest deficit at the end of the school year they can ask for a refund. In over 30 … have asked for their money back because achievement at Morningside approaches three years progress per school year. The daily report card is not responsible for the outstanding academic progress. It is simply a lagging measure of what goes on …
… It might surprise some readers to know that I believe that rewards have their place. I have written books that contain much about the science of behavior that includes the effective use of rewards, even in safety. But effective use of … have incidents. A reward program that doesn't include supervisors and employees who understand how to change behavior on a daily basis is "cruisin' for a bruisin." Often in such reward programs the most unsafe employee is inadvertently rewarded. … don't know the proper way to strengthen safe behavior to habit strength. And until they do, rewards will continue to work against a long-term safe working environment. Here are some signs that time and money are being wasted with safety rewards. …
… Some Other Things You Need to Know About Performance Baselines A performance baseline provides the standard against which we measure the effectiveness of our intervention. A change following an intervention relative to the baseline … baselines are: (1) How might “participant reactivity” affect the baseline measurement? (2) How long should the baseline remain in place prior to an intervention? and (3) Do we need a post-intervention return to the baseline? Sometimes just the act … of course) habituate to being observed and we get back to our same old ways of behaving. How long should the baseline remain in effect? The baseline needs to be long enough that we know the behavior has reached a steady state so that it isn’t …
… leaders learn how to objectively assess behaviors critical to their business, how to analyze the consequences that maintain desired and undesired behavior, and how to apply leadership skills to directly impact performance. A leadership coaching … leaders learn how to objectively assess behaviors critical to their business, how to analyze the consequences that maintain desired and undesired behavior, and how to apply leadership skills to directly impact performance. A leadership …
… measured, gets done.” If this saying is true, then why are so many people overweight? I have been recording my weight daily for over 35 years and as I am writing this, I am 4.5 pounds over my goal. Although that might not seem like much, the … the number of degrees the subject turned the knob, and without telling the subject the result, asked him to turn it again. During this period no one improved. During the next phase, after each turn of the knob, the number of degrees the … of performance in games is the occasion for positive reinforcement—a celebration as small as a fist pump or as large as raising the winner’s trophy in the air. If you are going to measure performance, think first about how you can help the …
… Backyard Behaviorism: Creating Science Fair Projects in Natural Settings In a previous commentary I described an experiment in which response keys and a food delivery device was set in a window such that any free-ranging pigeon who happened by could peck the keys and gain access to a little snack to tide her over to supper. Over the course of the project, several of these pigeons learned to … would “hang out” around the feeder, working away for short durations of food access. Now that the school year is underway again, kids’ and parents’ thoughts turn to (among other things) projects for that upcoming science fair. The scientific study …