Sources of Behavioral Variance in Process Safety

Timothy D. Ludwig is a Distinguished Graduate Professor at Appalachian State University, USA, and serves on the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies’ Commission that accredits best-in-industry safety programs. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and books that empirically document methods to improve safety and quality in industry through behavior analysis.

Introduction – Process Safety: Another Opportunity to Translate Behavior Analysis into Evidence-Based Practices of Grave Societal Value 1. An Industry’s Call to Understand the Contingencies Involved in Process Safety: Normalization of Deviance 2. Process Safety Behavioral Systems: Behaviors Interlock in Complex Metacontingencies 3. Complacency in Process Safety: A Behavior Analysis Toward Prevention Strategies 4. Behavioral Perspectives on Variability in Human Behavior as Part of Process Safety 5. A Behavioral Interpretation of Situation Awareness: Prospects for Organizational Behavior Management 6. Assessing and Preventing Serious Incidents with Behavioral Science: Enhancing Heinrich’s Triangle for the 21st Century 7. Leadership and Crew Resource Management in High-Reliability Organizations: A Competency Framework for Measuring Behaviors 8. Integrating Behavioral Science with Human Factors to Address Process Safety 9. Leadership’s Role in Process Safety: An Understanding of Behavioral Science Among Managers and Executives Is Needed Commentary 10. Integrating Behavioral Science with Process Safety Management 11. Is Organizational Behavior Management Enough? How Language and Person-States Could Make a Difference 12. Process Safety: Look Looking Beyond Personal Safety to Address Occupational Hazards and Risks