Dwight Harshbarger, Ph.D., Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
Outstanding performance in behavioral safety will receive special attention at the 2006 Behavioral Safety Now conference, October 3 – 5 in Kansas City. Keynote addresses will be given by the CEOs of two companies whose behavioral safety programs have been reviewed and accredited by the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. Lee McConnell, who heads the Acetate Fibers Division of Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee, and Don Kernan, general manager of SuperValu’s Midwest Regional Distribution Center will address the conference.
Behavioral safety programs in only four companies have received CCBS accreditation. In addition to Eastman and SuperValu, accreditation has been awarded to Halliburton’s Gulf of Mexico Operations and Marathon Petroleum’s Illinois Refining Division. Accreditation is awarded after submission of a description of a company’s behavioral safety program, one that includes data on upstream BBS programs and downstream incident rates. Following approval of the application, a CCBS review team makes a site visit to the applicant organization. It takes high quality performance sustained over time to qualify for the CCBS accreditation award.
Why do it? Achieving accreditation is a lot of work. But, people in accredited companies say, the award brings a lot of value. Here’s what they tell us.
Accreditation brings –
- Pride in exemplary performance – from the first line to the CEO
• CCBS is a neutral and respected third party, much like ISO
• Accreditation is proof of our high quality safety performance
- Opportunities to learn from accreditation review feedback and recommendations
• We can improve already outstanding safety operations and data management, find new says to innovate
- Opportunities to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace
- Motivation
• We want to become even better, to get our incident rates “below zero”
Make sure you’re at 2006 BSN. Learn what accreditation can do for your company – and hear it straight from the people who have achieved it.
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Dwight Harshbarger is the Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. The first two companies to earn the Cambridge Center Accreditaion will be telling their story in the upcoming Behavioral Safety Now Conference.