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Improving Your Safety
With a Behavioral Approach
(Reprinted from Hydrocarbon Processing)

Considerations for deciding on the appropriate frequency of observations (Table 5)

Terry E. McSween

If employees in your organization:

 Then you should consider conducting observations:

Considerations
Are at moderate to high risk of an injury accident Daily or weekly Frequent observations increase the rationale for involving employees in observations of their areas

May decrease frequency as an area improves its safety record
Are at low to moderate risk of an injury accident Weekly or monthly This is a good frequency for observations conducted by managers and supervisors

Most empirical studies use weekly observations
Have very low risk of an injury accident (office workers, for example) Periodic, if at all

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This article first appeared in Hydrocarbon Processing (August 1993) and is reproduced here with permission.