BBS Principles

Elementary behavioural principles concern the events that affect the behaviour, including the cues that precede (Pavlov, 1927) and the consequences that follow (Skinner, 1969) the behaviour.

Incentives, feedback and goal-setting all rise from this theory that behaviour is a reaction to its cues and consequences.

For its application to safety in the workplace, supplementary pertinent features constitute the typical current day BBS processes. 

Geller et al (2001) proposed four essential processes to employ in a behavioural-based system for mine safety:

(1) Define target behaviours;
(2) Observe critical behaviours;
(3) Intervene for instruction, support, motivation or safety self-management; and
(4) Test the impact of the process.