Assessing the Quality of Safety-Focused Leadership Engagements

This paper developed a leadership engagement assessment scorecard, aiming to gauge the quality of the interaction. Providing background: ·       Safety performance has “long been measured using lagging indicators such as total recordable incident rate (TRIR) that involve counting the number of injuries” ·       However, “recent research has shown that these metrics suffer from severe limitations… Continue reading Assessing the Quality of Safety-Focused Leadership Engagements

Behavioral Observations Reduce the Probability of Injury for a Week

Here’s one that may interest (trigger) people. This poster presentation highlights the effects of behavioural observations on reported safety incidents the following week. They looked at data over two years from a chemical manufacturing plant and oil refinery plant respectively. I’m always a bit sceptical on studies which rely on behavioural observations, and more importantly,… Continue reading Behavioral Observations Reduce the Probability of Injury for a Week