Safety Metrics

This completely updated and practical guide will help you evaluate your companys current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Written for professionals with limited exposure to statistics and safety-performance-measurement strategies, Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance shows you how to assess trends, inconsistencies, data, safety climates, work with data, and help with training in your workplace so you can identify areas that need corrective actions before an accident or injury occurs. Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety provides the reader with a framework for developing and implementing a safety performance measurement program in the workplace. From defining performance goals and objectives to establishing ways to quantify and measure performance, this book is designed for working professionals who are responsible for demonstrating the effectiveness of a safety program. Beyond the techniques for developing the program, this book presents content on commonly used methods for tracking safety performance based upon the potential loss perils including injured employees, liability losses, and property losses to name a few. Statistical analysis and data presentation methods are included as strategies that can be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the organizations safety performance.