ABSTRACT
Process safety is the management of processes that establish a multi-level system to assess, document, maintain, and inspect equipment and work practices integral in controlling highly toxic and/or reactive materials. In a highly engineered environment, any variance can set off a chain of events that increases the probability of a process safety incident as violent as an explosion. Most related is the effective and sustained application of behavior analysis to personal safety, those actions that help workers avoid and protect themselves from hazards. The resulting behavioral systems have been referred to as Behavioral Safety or Behavior-Based Safety. Predictably, the growing field of process safety management is dominated by engineering practices such as equipment design, operating procedures, preventive maintenance systems, and quality assurance. The interventions that may make up an effective behavioral system for process safety must deal with behavioral constructs such as fluency, extinction, and stimulus control.
