Comprehensive Analysis: Impact of Behavioral Safety on Employee Safety

This report investigates the impact of behavioral safety on employee safety within the context of ASL Ltd. It begins with a literature review exploring the relationship between behavioral safety, workplace harassment, organizational culture, and employee well-being. The methodology section outlines a study involving 100 employees, detailing the dependent variable (employee and workplace safety), experimental design (independent measures), and procedure (covert observation). The report anticipates negative results, suggesting that employees may face retaliation from the human resources department when reporting policy breaches. Recommendations include addressing employee issues, prohibiting biases, establishing safety policies, enhancing investigations, and taking immediate action against violations. References to relevant research are provided, supporting the analysis of behavioral safety's impact on employee safety and organizational practices.

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Table of Contents
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................2
Research Methodology...............................................................................................................2
Participants and setting..........................................................................................................2
Dependent variable.................................................................................................................3
Experimental design...............................................................................................................3
Procedure................................................................................................................................3
Inter-observer agreement.......................................................................................................3
Results........................................................................................................................................3
Recommendation........................................................................................................................3
Reference....................................................................................................................................5

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Literature Review
Behavioral safety keeps the management team and the employees updated about the
safety in the organization by observing behavior of their colleagues or peer groups. By
observing the behavior of oneself and of their colleague helps to ensure employee safety in
the organization (Lutchman, Ghanem & Maharaj, 2016). Various research have been
conducted on different industries to figure out the harassment faced by employees in their
workplace and the impact of behavior safety on wellbeing of an employee. A researcher
identifies that a proper behavioral safety approach will help in reducing the workplace
harassment faced by employees. Understanding the human behavior, organizational culture
and workplace psychology will help in proper implementation of the behavioral safety
approach (Beus, McCord & Zohar, 2016). One research study identifies the organization
culture in which harassment takes place, the attitudes of the harasser and the harasse and the
policies developed by that organization to prohibit harassment. It mentions that practice of
safety behavior leads to excellent work culture (Cooper, 2015). Another researcher identifies
the extent and number of times different employees were harassed in their workplace. The
result shows that 63.3% of the total employees involved in the research faced frequent
harassment. It has been found that by applying behavior based safety approach the
management has been able to save lives, earn more revenue and increase productivity
(Avram, Ionescu & Mincu, 2015).
Research Methodology
Participants and setting
Hundred employees from ASL Ltd. will be used in this research after receiving
permission from the management team and it will be conducted in the office of ASL Ltd..

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Dependent variable
The degree of employee and workplace safety is measured in terms of percentages.
Experimental design
The research will be following independent measures type of design. For every factor
of behavioral safety, all the 100 participants will be used.
Procedure
Hundred random employees from ASL Ltd. will be chosen randomly from several
departments and they will observed for a weeks through covert observation method.
Inter-observer agreement
An interobserver agreement is the number of times two or more observers have shown
the same results for every behavior. The agreement is calculated as the frequency of
agreements divided by the frequency of agreements plus disagreements multiplied by 100. In
this research the agreements of observers was an average of 94%.
Results
The results from this research are expected to be negative. It will be observed that
maximum employees are facing retaliation from the human resource department whenever
they are going to report about a breach in any company policy such as sexual harassment,
code of conduct and discrimination from their peer groups. The employees are facing
retaliation from the human resource department in the form of demotion, negative reviews
and unethical behavior.
Recommendation
ASL Ltd. company should try to confront the issues faced by their employees rather
than concealing them. The practice of biasness and prejudices should be prohibited in the

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workplace. Safety policies should be established, workplace investigation should be enhanced
and immediate actions should be taken for violation of company policies.

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Reference
Avram, E., Ionescu, D., & Mincu, C. L. (2015). Perceived safety climate and organizational
trust: the mediator role of job satisfaction. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences,
187, 679-684.
Beus, J. M., McCord, M. A., & Zohar, D. (2016). Workplace safety: A review and research
synthesis. Organizational psychology review, 6(4), 352-381.
Cooper, D. (2015). Effective safety leadership: Understanding types & styles that improve
safety performance. Professional Safety, 60(02), 49-53.
Lutchman, C., Ghanem, W., & Maharaj, R. (2016). Safety management: A comprehensive
approach to developing a sustainable system. CRC Press.