When it was introduced, behavior-based safety (BBS) was seen as a magic panacea for everything that ailed safety programs. “It was the Swiss Army Knife of safety programs. It could take care of ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team has developed a behavior-based safety assessment system capable of measuring construction workers' ability to perceive ...

The study of occupational safety and health has been in existence for as long as there have been structured work environments. Hippocrates (460-377 BC), for example, wrote of the harmful effects of an ...

Even with better technology and regulations, human behavior remains the leading cause of workplace incidents. Here’s what safety leaders need to understand—and fix—in 2026. As occupational safety ...

The Change Blindness Test evaluates how sensitively workers detect subtle changes or hazards in a work scene, while the Go/No-go Test assesses the ability to quickly and accurately judge risk and to ...

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Wendy Davison, M.Ed., CPD, recently joined National School Safety and Security Services as a consultant. Davison is an ...