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A New Take on Safety Incentive Programs
Using Your Inspection Data to Improve Safety Performance through a Leading Indicator Safety Incentives Program What comes to mind when you hear the term “safety incentives”? Pizza parties held after...
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What are near misses?
What are near misses? The disputed territory between lagging and leading indicators. It seems that everyone wants to claim near misses for their cause. That should be good news – near misses present...
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The Leading Indicator Journey
The Case for Leading Indicators Why do so many organizations continue to take a reactive approach to safety? Why is it so hard to maintain safety as a priority? Why do supervisors and managers who...
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Near Miss Reporting – Practical Advice
If near misses are such a rich source of information for accident prevention, why is it sometimes difficult to get near misses reported? Recall a time when you were driving or cycling and had a near...
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“In Search of” the Best Safety Leading Indicators
If, like me, you are old enough to have watched TV in the late seventies and early eighties, you may recall a slightly offbeat TV show called “In Search of…” The show was narrated by Leonard Nimoy –...
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Accidents Cannot Be Prevented if Leading Indicators For Safety Are Ignored
We’ve all seen and read the articles about how data can help us improve production, quality, safety and environmental performance within the work environment. With that said, how many of us have...
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Capturing and Using Leading Safety Metrics
Introduction As safety professionals we collect data. It doesn’t make a difference if your focus is general safety, occupational hygiene or a combination of the two. We perform safety observations,...
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Percent Safe is NOT a Measure of Risk
Virtually all companies collect worksite safety observations. Sadly, most companies collect only unsafe findings. This results in a very incomplete picture, as discussed in “The Value of Safety...
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