In order to track the performance of your corporate safety program, you need to develop a list of key performance indicators. Key performance indicators, or KPIs, will be the criteria by which you ...

Nearly 2.7 million workers were injured or caught an illness at work in 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As an employer or safety professional, your job is to ensure that your ...

Lagging indicators in occupational safety and health are required reporting figures that provide an industry-standard metric to measure the number of employees injured annually or impacted by a ...

Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are the critical (key) indicators of progress toward an intended result. In the safety and health world, there are many different performance indicators that a ...

Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are used to create or define a way to measure process performance. For safety and risk, that means processes related to the number of safety or risk incidents, ...

In the past, the most common way to measure the safety performance of a business was to look at “lagging” indicators. The number of incidents and injuries would be metrics tasked with painting a ...

Lagging indicators, such as injury rates and fatalities, measure what already has happened. Ideally, EHS professionals would like to prevent these incidents from occurring. Many are turning to leading ...

As the workplace continues to become more dynamic, maintaining a healthy safety culture is more important than ever. As we inch closer toward the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ...

Key performance indicators are an important element of operational safety performance measurement, assessment and continuous improvement. A hierarchy of performance indicators collectively provides a ...

More oil and gas wells are drilled onshore than offshore, requiring more man hours and creating more exposure to risk. As a result, onshore drilling consistently has higher lost-time-incident (LTI) ...

Russia’s government has approved a new flight-safety programme on which it intends to establish a more pro-active approach to risk management in air transport. The new framework – approved by a 23 ...

This review focuses on previously published academic literature on the use of safety leading indicators to manage employee safety. However, little documented knowledge exists regarding state DOTs’ ...