Meaningful Safety Metrics - What Every Safety Professional Should Know

Why Should You Attend:

Safety metrics can help discover problems before they negatively impact your employees - and your bottom line. And by selecting the right things to measure, your organization can prevent expensive mistakes in the workplace by fixing any problems before they can impact your business.

But what, exactly, are the right metrics for your organization? Is it the traditional recordable rate, severity rate, cost of accidents, near miss numbers, physical audit scores, or perception surveys? What about leading indicators, trailing indicators, or incident rates. How about the number of accidents or the rise – or fall – in your insurance premiums?

This webinar will present clear and effective steps that you can take to improve safety performance through safety metrics. This course covers the types of measures, developing a performance measurement system, reporting performance measurement to senior management and other topics critical to safety metrics.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

• Define key terms in safety metrics.
• Develop and apply simple measurement and feedback systems.
• Separate the important things in measurement from the unimportant.
• Select the best safety metrics for your organization.
• Integrate new metrics into safety goals, objectives, and performance appraisals.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Definitions of key terms, such as recordable rate, severity rate, leading indicators, trailing indicators, incident rates, and more.
• How to develop and apply simple measurement and feedback systems.
• How to define desired outputs for safety initiatives and activities.
• How to measure the important things and not waste time on the unimportant.
• How to choose appropriate safety metrics for your organization.
• Why measures of outputs are more important than activity-based measures.
• How inspection and audit findings impact metrics.
• How to integrate new metrics into safety goals, objectives, and performance appraisals.
• Ideas for utilizing measurement techniques to track and improve performance.

Who Will Benefit:

• Health and Safety Professionals
• Industrial Hygienists
• Hazardous Materials Professionals
• Plant Supervisors
• Business Owners
• Operational Managers / Supervisors

Instructor Profile:

Michael Lawrence, is principal of Summit Safety Technologies based in Long Beach, California. Lawrence is an accomplished safety manager and has been training adult workers and safety professionals for many years. He is a frequent speaker and is recognized for his expert knowledge of safety regulations, safety management systems, business continuation planning, emergency preparedness, and quality management systems.

Lawrence has over 30 years experience in safety management, technical training, instructional design, and quality management, with skills that were honed during his 16 years in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and 14 years in Naval Aviation. With over three decades of experience as a frontline worker, supervisor, manager, and business owner, he brings a refreshing down-to-earth approach in the effective sharing of knowledge and experience.

Lawrence is certified in Safety & Health Systems for Small Business, Instructional Design, and as a Performance Based Equipment Trainer (PBET).

Topic Background:

To manage something you must be able to measure it, and to measure something you have to be able to define it. In environmental health & safety management, a metric is the measurable performance of an environmental or safety activity or program within an organization. Through use of metrics, we can drive organizational performance toward more efficient use of resources, improved compliance and profitability, and improved general health and well-being of the organization and our workers.

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