John Leyland, president of Safety Performance Services, opened his session at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) in Montreal with a true story of a workplace tragedy that took ...

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 ...

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, ...

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) ...

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’ ...

At a November 7 OSHA public meeting on leading indicators for safety and health programs, Associated Builders and Contractors Vice President of Health, Safety, Environment and Workforce Development ...

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) ...

In March 2005, 15 workers were killed in an explosion in Texas City shortly after returning from a celebratory luncheon at which BP refinery personnel were congratulated on an outstanding safety ...