Measuring Safety Management Performance

Measuring Safety Management Performance lists and explains the difference between lagging and leading measures of safety management performance. It informs the reader how to use both proactive and reactive safety performance indicators and explains that consequence measurement is not an accurate reflection of the organization’s safety effort. It suggests managements’ Safety Performance Indicators (SPI) should be changed to proactive, positive measures of action and activities which can be controlled and accurately measured. A roadmap of a holistic system for measurement is offered that covers health and safety performance. It shows how management is traditionally informed about where they have been by information provided relating to injury data, rather than proactive, measurable, and controllable data on accident prevention efforts provided by the health and safety management system (SMS), which indicate where they are going.

This highly practical book features examples of safety performance indicators, provides positive guidelines for accurate safety performance measurement, and is based on actual workplace experiences. It explains the strengths and weaknesses of proactive and reactive measurement metrics and gives examples of leading and lagging safety performance indicators.

This book will be an ideal read for professionals and graduate students in the fields of occupational health and safety, ergonomics, and human factors engineering. It will have resonance with managers and professionals engaged in health and safety provisions at their place of work.

Preface

Part I : Introduction to Safety Management
Chapter 1 : Safety Management
Chapter 2 : Workplace Health and Safety
Chapter 3 : Understanding and Analyzing Accidental Loss Causation
Chapter 4 : Defining Safety Management Performance

Part II : Safety Management Performance Measurements
Chapter 5 : Pre-Contact, Contact, and Post-Contact Measurement

Part III : Measuring Lagging Indicators of Safety Management Performance
Chapter 6 : Lagging Indicators of Safety Performance : Injuries, Illness, and Diseases
Chapter 7 : Underreporting of Injuries, Illnesses, and Damage
Chapter 8 : Awards Based on Lagging Indicators
Chapter 9 : Lagging Indicators of Safety Performance : Damage, Fires, and Interruption
Chapter 10 : Cause of Injury or Damage : Transfer of Energy
Chapter 11 : Total Cost of Risk

Part IV : Leading Safety Management Performance Indicators
Chapter 12 : Safety Management Control

Part V : Examples of Positive Performance Safety Indicators (PPSI)
Chapter 13 : Near Miss Incidents as a Measurement of Safety Performance
Chapter 14 : High-Risk Behavior (Unsafe Act) and High-Risk Conditions (Unsafe Conditions)
Chapter 15 : Health and Safety Inspections
Chapter 16 : Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
Chapter 17 : Health and Safety Committee Meetings
Chapter 18 : Health and Safety Representatives Appointed
Chapter 19 : Safety Perceptions Surveys
Chapter 20 : Employees Trained in Health and Safety
Chapter 21 : Safety Toolbox Talks and Task Risk Assessments
Chapter 22 : Quality of Accident Investigation Reports

Part VI : The Safety Management System (SMS) Audit as a Safety Management Performance Measurement Tool
Chapter 23 : The SMS Audit as a Safety Management Performance Measurement Tool
Chapter 24 : Example Leading Safety Key Performance Indicators

Index