More than 600 professionals attended the 7th European Congress of Behavior- Based Safety (Verona , 9-10 May 2013 )

Certification of results and access to discounts INAIL

Verona , May 27 – “A professional must adopt the scientific method in every intervention: this requires to identify and measure the dependent variable, such as the safety behavior and accidents. Then intervening in the organization and introducing a new element, as may be a process of feedback and rewards to increase motivation of workers. And finally I go see whether that dependent variable is changed as a result of what I did.” These words of prof. Fabio Tosolin – chair of the conference and president of AARBA , the Italian Scientific Society of Behavior Analysis – were the fil rouge of the 7th European conference of Behavior-Based Safety, the two days event in Verona that has had more than 600 participants from 9 to May 10 at the Palazzo della Guardia.

In the event, which has received the patronage of ANMIL, INAIL and Confindustria Verona, the opening session outlined the path that the behavioral safety will have to follow in order to spread and reduce the number of accidents in the Italian and European companies.
For the meritorious work of internationalization of Behavior Analysis and Behavior- Based Safety, SABA has decided to honor the president AARBA the International Development 2012 Grant . It is a check for $ 1,000 “to finance the recording of the authorship of the document B -BS Requirements , which defines the requirements for a process of behavioral safety so that they can be certified”.

AARBA, in collaboration with the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (CCBS) and two leading certification bodies (TÜV , RINA), worked for more than a year to establish the certification path that a company must follow in order to be able to claim to have a BBS process capable of reducing accidents. This certification, as opposed to many others, will not verify the bureaucracy but the frequency and quality of the BBS activity (checklists, observations, meetings, action plans, plans for the awards, etc. ) and – most importantly – the that those activities have resulted in a measurable reduction in injuries and dressings.

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