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Safety Indicators and Metrics
66 articles
Near-Miss Quality: 8 Distortions That Make Volume Look Like Learning
Near-miss quality matters more than report volume when EHS managers need early warning on serious exposure, weak controls, and silent operational risk.
Accident Ratio Operating System: 50% Cut in 180 Days
Study the metrics mechanism behind Andreza Araújo's PepsiCo accident-ratio result and learn how leaders turn safety KPIs into field control.
DART Rate: 8 Pitfalls That Hide Restricted Work
DART rate can reveal serious work restrictions, but only when EHS teams separate medical classification from real control failure.
Observation Quality: 6 Blind Spots in Safety Metrics
Observation quality exposes whether safety conversations are reducing risk or merely producing comfortable dashboards for leaders.
How to Audit Safety KPIs for False Confidence in 30 Days
Audit safety KPIs in 30 days by testing decision use, leading indicator quality, serious-risk exposure, reporting incentives, and denominator discipline.
Safety Incentive Programs: 7 Distortions Leaders Must Fix
Safety incentive programs can improve attention or quietly suppress bad news. Use seven tests to keep rewards from hiding serious risk.
Safety Culture ROI: 7 Metrics That Prove Prevention Pays
Safety culture ROI is not proven by slogans or injury rates alone. Use seven financial and operational metrics that show whether prevention changed the work.
Underreporting in Safety: 7 Signals Your Metrics Are Too Clean
Underreporting in safety hides weak signals when dashboards reward clean numbers more than honest reporting, supervisor escalation, and control repair.
Corrective Action Closure: 7 Metrics That Prove Risk Changed
Corrective action closure proves little unless EHS can show that controls changed, exposure fell, and leaders verified the result in the field.
Executive Safety Dashboard: 7 Metrics the Board Should See Monthly
An executive safety dashboard should move beyond TRIR and show whether serious exposure, control weakness, reporting trust, and leadership action are changing.