Survey: Leading Indicators in Health and Safety
Improving safety performance requires measurement. But the way organisations measure and track safety performance can influence their overall success.
How do you measure your safety performance?
Improving safety performance requires measurement. But the way organisations measure and track safety performance can influence their overall success.
Many businesses rely heavily on lag indicators to measure their safety performance because they are familiar and easy to measure. They also tend to be standardised across industries. These traditional safety metrics include injury frequency rates, severity rates, lost workdays, and workers’ compensation costs. But while they provide a good picture of past safety performance, they are inherently difficult to influence because they are reactionary in nature. They also do little to indicate how well your organisation is doing at preventing future incidents.
Leading indicators are measurements of safety events or behaviours that occur pre-incident. Their predictive nature provides actionable data that businesses can use to measure current safety performance, as well as areas for continuous improvement.
Examples of leading indicators:
- Safety training
- Employee Competencies
- Opportunities identified and corrected
- Reduction of risk factors
- Employee perception surveys
- Safety audits
Safety Professionals: Leading Indicators Survey
The team at myosh are conducting an anonymous survey of safety professionals to get a better idea of how organisations measure their safety performance, and how they use leading indicators. If you wish to receive a link to the post-survey analytics, please leave your details below. Please note, this survey is anonymous and your response will not be associated with your person in any way.
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