Job Safety Test
What does our risk reduction assessment service consist of?
The Safe Behavioral DNA© R measures the individual probability of behaving safely at work and, consequently, the lower probability of having an accident.
This accident reduction evaluation model allows us to know the risk levels of the workforce in critical positions, in addition to generating risk maps and strengthening prevention programs.
It is a reduced version aimed at supporting faster and more massive evaluation processes.
SBDNA® R measures 4 key factors associated with accident rates:
- Concentration
- Self-control
- Compliance with Rules
- Prudence
Reduce hiring errors, improving the selection of collaborators.
Measures basic behaviors essential for every position.
Benefits for your company:
- It effectively predicts the individual probability of having an accident.
- Prevents the occurrence of work accidents.
- It focuses on higher risk positions.
- Allow the development of organizational actions aimed at reducing and controlling accident rates.
INFORMATION
Name: SBDNA© R, Safe Behavioral DNA© R
Use: Evaluation of candidates and collaborators in all types of industries.
Number of Questions: 77 items.
Application Time: 12 minutes.
Terms of validity: Multiple validation studies.
Reliability: 0.93
Languages: Latin American Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Oriented to: Operators, auxiliaries, construction, mining, logistics, aviation and any area or position with a higher risk of accidents.
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Why use job security tests for personnel selection and employee evaluation?
Workplace accidents generate enormous costs for companies and society; it is estimated that an average accident generates a cost of 11 thousand dollars, and that close to 4% of the world's GDP is allocated to work-related illnesses and accidents.
Undoubtedly, these damages leave aside the damage to people, families and companies as a result of the complexity of these events.
There is every reason to take all the necessary preventive measures to reduce its occurrence in companies.
Considering that there are positions or positions that imply conditions of greater exposure to risk, selection processes must undoubtedly consider these conditions and look for more suitable people for these functions. In particular, look for people with a greater commitment to safe behavior and self-care.
Different investigations have been carried out worldwide seeking to identify the differences between people who have accidents at work, more than others. Managing to identify a series of traits that scientific evidence has differentiated in a valid and reliable way.
In this context, occupational safety tests or tests have been developed aimed at measuring the probability of performing safely at work, highlighting the Safe Behavioral DNA R test for its solidity and theoretical and methodological foundation that validates its results.
The Safe Behavioral DNA R workplace safety test is an exclusive and unique solution to reduce workplace accidents by identifying safer candidates or employees.
What is the Safe Behavioral DNA R workplace safety test?
The Safe Behavioral DNA R test corresponds to a 77-item questionnaire with Likert-type alternatives, applied online to candidates and employees, taking an average of 12 minutes to complete.
It operates on our TEST-HR.COM processing platform, providing usage statistics to client companies, as well as the option to download the data in Excel format to perform your own statistical analysis.
The Safe Behavioral DNA R psychometric test is an exclusive and comprehensive evaluation tool, developed by a team of multidisciplinary experts made up of experts in industrial safety, as well as in psychometrics, in order to generate a model that is useful for user companies, seeking favorably impact occupational risk indicators.
The Safe Behavioral DNA R workplace safety test is currently available in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English and is used mainly in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Central America with excellent results in terms of its validity and reliability, effectively achieving Identify candidates and employees at high risk of engaging in dangerous and reckless behavior and suffering workplace accidents.
The base model of Safe Behavioral DNA R is based on four factors associated with workplace safety: Compliance with Standards, Self-Control, Prudence – Risk Aversion and Concentration.
Companies that use the Safe Behavioral DNA R test receive a complete detailed report on the characteristics of the candidate or employee evaluated immediately.
Why use the Safe Behavioral DNA R workplace safety test?
The human factor would explain at least 80% of workplace accidents, associated with unsafe or reckless behavior. In this way, it is essential to implement psychometric tests for personnel selection that identify safer people, who do not take risks at work and behave safely.
The use of valid and reliable occupational safety tests will allow enormous benefits for companies by reducing the costs associated with workplace accidents, as well as the enormous family impact that it brings in the event of more serious situations occurring.
The Safe Behavioral DNA R test Identifying safer candidates allows reducing the rate of workplace accidents, helping to generate savings and improve the safety culture in the company
The Safe Behavioral DNA R allows you to measure the DNA of safe behavior. Companies that use Safe Behavioral DNA R manage to effectively reduce their accident rate and strengthen a safety culture within their organization by promoting safe behavior and self-care.
What factors does the Safe Behavioral DNA R test measure?
After extensive bibliographic research, various factors associated with safe behavior were identified, in short, that differentiated people who suffered more or fewer accidents at work.
This extensive research was systematized and validated through various studies, finally allowing the identification of four factors associated with safe behavior, which have been validated in multiple investigations.
The four fundamental factors associated with safe work conduct are:
- Self-control. This factor measures the level of emotional stability, since those people with greater stability and emotional balance would have a lower probability of having an accident at work. According to evidence, people who are more anxious, unstable and have a lower tolerance for stress would be more likely to suffer accidents in the workplace.
- Compliance with Rules. This factor measures the degree to which people would tend to respect safety regulations and adhere to protocols, favoring safe behavior, therefore, having a lower probability of being involved in workplace accidents. The evidence collected shows that greater compliance with standards would be associated with greater social integration and altruism, adherence to standards and having an internal locus of control, which together increase the probability of compliance with safety standards.
- Prudence – Risk Aversion. This factor evaluates the degree to which people who avoid taking risks and dangerous situations have a lower probability of accidents. It has been documented in various studies that people who seek to experience new sensations would be more exposed to workplace accidents, since they have resistance to monotony, inciting reckless behavior. On the other hand, people with greater impulsiveness, in certain cases, would skip safety procedures, potentially causing an accident at work.
- Concentration. This factor measures the probability of being careful, meticulous and attentive to details and, in this way, reducing the occurrence of workplace accidents. It has been shown that distracted or more extroverted people lose attention to the details or risks present at work, potentially causing an accident at work.
How is the result obtained from SBDNA R?
The Safe Behavioral DNA R workplace safety test is applied online after 12 minutes on average, generating an easy-to-interpret report for your company.
The report provided depends on whether it is applied to candidates or current employees, since the comparison scales differ in both cases, as well as the detail of each report.
The report provides a general risk indicator of the person examined and provides scores on the four factors associated with safe work behavior: Compliance with Standards, Self-control, Prudence – Risk Aversion and Concentration.
The scores are expressed on a Sten scale, which ranges from 1 to 10, facilitating the interpretation of the report.
The report of the Safe Behavioral DNA R occupational safety test is very complete, since it includes the scores on the safe behavior scales, it also presents the self-report of previous accidents and near-misses experienced, and a qualitative detail for the purpose of complement the behavioral analysis of the candidate, in order to make better hiring decisions, or have comprehensive information about the characteristics of your employees
The report provided for the candidate consists of the score graph, self-report of work accidents, significant behavioral indicators, interpretation of the results and suggested questions for follow-up interviews.
In the event that employees are evaluated, the report provided consists of the score graph, self-report of workplace accidents, significant behavioral indicators, interpretation of the results and development guidelines.
For you to carry out the analyzes you require, you can easily download the data from the evaluations carried out to Excel.
Can I apply the Safe Behavioral DNA R test to current employees or collaborators?
The Safe Behavioral DNA R workplace safety test is used to screen current employees or collaborators with the aim of improving safe behavior.
It is worth mentioning that massive training and training courses are regularly carried out without considering the individual characteristics or the real needs of receiving the course. In this way, being able to carry out a prior diagnosis of your workforce will obviously allow you to identify people with less commitment to safe work behavior and self-care, in order to focus and optimize resources on this specific group.
Additionally, this diagnosis will allow you to have a complete overview of the needs to promote safe behavior in your collaborators and employees, especially in the comparison of the level of risk to which certain functions are exposed or frequency of previous incidents, and the characteristics of the people who perform these functions in terms of their individual risk and their likelihood of performing safely.
Depending on the actions that your company is implementing, having a complete diagnosis of the associated behavioral aspects will undoubtedly allow you to have very valuable information for your best decisions.
It should be noted that the Safe Behavioral DNA R report consists of a series of suggestions for the development of safe behavior associated with each of the four fundamental factors associated with the model.
How was the Safe Behavioral DNA security test created?
Safe Behavioral DNA was originally developed by the company VYA CONSULTING GROUP at the request of the Bolivar Risk Administrator in Colombia, an institution that provides tools and solutions in the area of risk prevention to more than 1 million workers in Colombia.
For its creation, firstly, an extensive bibliographic review of the individual traits associated with work accidents was initially carried out, developing a preliminary questionnaire applied to a thousand workers belonging to 11 companies from different productive sectors, such as construction, mining, transportation, industry, services, among others.
The sample of one thousand workers considered two groups of employees: 600 who had suffered documented workplace accidents in the last two years and 400 who had not experienced accidents in the same period, both groups belonging to the same positions and selected companies.
A 136-item questionnaire was developed aimed at differentiating both groups, reaching a reliability of 0.93 and significant differences between both. The constructed model was based on extensive original scientific evidence, identifying four factors that differentiated both groups of workers in terms of their accident history: Compliance with Standards, Self-control, Prudence – Risk Aversion and Concentration.
These four factors are fundamental when differentiating people according to their safe work behavior in companies.
After a couple of years of international studies, covering countries such as Mexico, Chile, Peru, Russia, India, Italy, among others, it was decided to develop two special and reduced versions of the original model, based on more than 200 thousand applications.
– Safe Behavioral DNA R, 77-item version, applied in 12 minutes, implementing a series of improvements compared to the original version.
– Safe Behavioral DNA DRIVER, 84-item version, aimed exclusively at the selection and evaluation of drivers and vehicle drivers.
Both solutions operate online and provide a detailed report on the actions to be implemented in their use for evaluation of current workers.
Currently, the Safe Behavioral DNA workplace safety test is used in various Latin American countries by companies interested in reducing workplace accidents and risk behaviors by improving their personnel selection processes.
Among the countries where it is mostly used, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, among others, stand out.
Does it effectively predict safe performance? How has it been validated?
Multiple studies have been carried out in various companies in several countries, which can significantly impact the rate of workplace accidents by improving their personnel selection processes.
MEXICAN COMPANY REDUCES WORKPLACE RISKS
An important Mexican industrial company applied the Safe Behavioral DNA R test to almost 4 thousand candidates in its personnel selection processes for production operators.
The almost 4 thousand candidates were grouped according to their score on the SBDNA R global indicator, according to the 10 score categories, grouping them into low probability of safe behavior (1-3), medium (4-6) and high ( 7-10).
The questionnaire includes questions about work accidents suffered previously, obtaining a rate of 22% for this group, that is, 22% of the almost 4 thousand candidates evaluated acknowledge having had a previous accident.
When comparing each score zone (1-10), a linear relationship is clearly seen between self-report of accidents and SBDNA R score, that is, the higher the SBDNA R score, the lower the rate of work accidents and vice versa. For example, 75% of candidates with a score of 1 (the lowest) declare having had an accident, 65% of candidates with a score of 2 declare having had an accident, and so on. At the other end of the highest scores (9-10), they do not declare accident history in their self-report.
Why does the SAFE BEHAVIORAL DNA test measure four factors?
The available international evidence showed these four factors as fundamental axes of safe behavior. Which have been validated as reliable predictors in candidates and employees or collaborators.
The four factors are considered as a comprehensive and comprehensive measurement necessary to have a complete diagnosis of the characteristics of the person evaluated with respect to their self-care and safe work behavior.
Customer benefits
As a client of our solutions, your company will receive access to the chosen tests and the online processing platform, as well as support from our experts for the best use of these solutions.
You will have training in the use of our tools and support for basic material and documentation of the developed models.
We are at your disposal to support you through comprehensive and professional advice.
TRAINING
From day one and throughout the service cycle, in-person or online training is available to all test administrators. Supported with exclusive audiovisual training material
SUPPORT FOR
Our team will always be available to answer user questions, usually with almost immediate response times, establishing a close long-term relationship.
RESEARCH
Scientific research and publications provide solid support for evaluation decisions and enable accurate ROI calculations.
ADVISORY
We are an interdisciplinary team of experts and researchers with vast experience in the fields of psychology, psychometrics and personnel evaluation.
