Behavioral Safety Accreditation with CCBS : What it is and how it sustains outstanding safety performance

Mark P. Alavosius – Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies This paper describes the accreditation program to recognize corporate achievement in promoting safety behavior within work organizations. Many corporations increasingly emphasize their efforts to create and sustain safe work environments. Usually this entails comprehensive safety management processes and technologies; in many cases it involves systematic promotion of ‘safety-behaviors’ by all employees. Accreditation and recognition of these behavioral initiatives involves third party, independent review of applications of behavior principles to improve safety behaviors and reduce occupational injury and illness. The CCBS commission had accredited safety applications in seven (7) work sites with more in process. One benefit of accreditation is that it strengthens commitment to worker safety and responsible behavior by industry leaders. The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies ( CCBS ) is a non-profit organization promoting the application of behavior analysis towards amelioration of social problems. Currently the CCBS accredits sustained and effective behavioral safety programs within corporations. This safety accreditation process might be revised and extended to ‘green behavi…