How do you measure safety in your workplace to enhance performance and reduce employee downtime? There are several tested methods that Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) leaders use to reduce employee incidents and illnesses. Among the leading methods are Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)–or leading and lagging indicators. Leading indicators are pre-incident measurements, as opposed to lagging indicators, which are measurements collected after an incident occurs. For example, a slip and fall incident from stray construction materials is a lagging indicator because the incident has already occurred, but an inspection that notes the poor quality of the surrounding area and prevents a future slip and fall from taking place is a leading indicator. A key component of leading indicators is that they measure safety events or behaviors that precede incidents and have a predictive quality.
By measuring leading indicators including conditions, events and sequences that precede and lead up to accidents, these KPIs have value in predicting the arrival of an event and can provide the opportunity to introduce control measures to stop the event from happening. Recently, many articles have stressed the importance of looking beyond lagging indicators, but then how can your organization learn from past incidents and track results? By combining incident measurement and training management software, your company or organization can adopt a holistic approach to reducing workplace incidents and meeting Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. Both leading and lagging indicators can be relevant to workplace safety and worth measuring. They present important aspects of an overall safety management system. We have to use all the tools available to us to create an environment that drives us to a zero-incident job site.
If you want to learn more about how leading and lagging indicators can help improve your safety performance, download a free white paper from Gensuite–Leading and Lagging Indicators: How to Measure Workplace Safety to Reduce Workplace Incidents. Unlock the following contents…
- Selecting and Using the Right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Your Organization
- Why Leading and Lagging Indicators Are Important: Rising OSHA Regulations & Safety Trends
- Models and Methods for Using Leading and Lagging Indicators: A Contextual and Visual Guide
- A Gensuite Solution: Implementing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Into Your Workplace
- Conclusion and Takeaways
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