Are You Asking the Right Questions about Your Safety Programs
Topic: Safety Management
What return on investment can safety and health programs provide.
- Improved employee morale
- Decreased lost time
- Fewer workplace injuries and illnesses
- Lower insurance costs
- Safety culture adoption
How can safety and health become a part of the way a business runs?
- Combine performance standards with safety and health standards
- Talk the talk and walk the walk
- Top down support
- Bottom up implementation
What indicators tell you if you're getting weaker or stronger?
- Statistical reports
- Opinion surveys
- Risk analysis
- Periodic inspections
- Process improvement initiatives
What practices are best for assuring lasting success?
- Obtain management buy-in.
- Build trust.
- Conduct self-assessments.
- Develop a site safety vision.
- Develop a system of accountability and measures.
- Implement recognition and rewards.
- Provide awareness training.
- Implement process changes.
- Continually measure, communicate results and celebrate successes.
Ensure the Success of Your Safety Program
Tracking performance is critical to continual improvement and success, but in the area of safety, many organizations have struggled to identify measurements that have a strong correlation to successful safety performance.Many companies make the mistake of relying exclusively on lagging indicators, such as incident rates, lost or restricted workdays, or workers compensation costs. Although these can be useful and valuable indicators, they only provide an "after the fact" reactive view of your safety program.
A better practice is to incorporate leading indicators, which identify, track, measure, and correct the factors that have a strong correlation with potential accidents, into your overall safety metrics strategy. The goal is to use this information to identify accident casual factors and correct them before an accident happens.
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