Quality Safety Edge
- 1526 Hawthorne Street
- Houston, Texas
- 77006
- Phone: (713) 807-1112
- Fax: (713) 807-1113
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Description
Behavior-based safety (BBS) has a long history of reducing injury rates by 70 percent over a three-year period. This is the process that all world-class companies use to create a strong safety culture. Quality Safety Edge has been implementing behavior-based safety for over 20 years in more than 1,200 facilities around the world. Values Based Safety®—QSE’s customized approach to BBS—creates management commitment, employee involvement, and well-defined support behaviors that are critical to BBS success over the long term.
Founded in 1911, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is the world’s oldest professional safety society. ASSE promotes the expertise, leadership and commitment of its members, while providing them with professional development, advocacy and standards development.
Quality Safety Edge provides companies with the additional tools needed to fully utilize the intellectual capital that BBS provides. Our consultants have more than 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies to increase the rate of employee engagement in profitable behaviors.
A few BBS consulting firms, such as Quality Safety Edge, have experience in helping their clients generalize the behavioral approach they are using successfully in safety to broader organizational performance issues. It is simple and builds on the skills that management and employees have already applied to safety. It can be used independently or as part of Lean/Six Sigma/Operational Excellence's problem-solving process. And the really good news is that it is the easiest to implement and the cheapest, most robust performance-improvement process available.
Quality Safety Edge creates employee ownership working with a team of employees to plan and implement the behavior-based safety process. This involvement in the design process results in a high level of employee ownership and support. After the initial kick-off, employees continue to participate in training and in conducting safety observations with their work groups. In addition, they themselves use the resulting data to develop action plans to address hazards and encourage safe work practices.