Safety Statistics

Fatal Work Related Injuries

Injury Prevention

Fatal Work Related Injuries Guest Post The workplace can be a dangerous place and accidents happen. Some jobs are more hazardous than others and as you’ll see so are some locations. Industrial Disease is a term used to describe illness and injury caused at work and unfortunately some of these result in death. We have [...]

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Measurement and Psychosocial Safety

Behaviour Based Safety

Another great article by Dr Robert Long to add to the thinking pot! – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE. I highly recommend you check out Rob’s new book “RISK MAKES SENSE” – click on image in right column to read precise. If you ask the wrong [...]

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We Are Failing to Improve Workplace Safety

Safety Statistics

We Are Failing to Improve Workplace Safety By Peter L Mitchell We have to take a different approach to health and safety in the workplace because what we’ve been doing is not working. In spite of our best efforts, we have driven health and safety underground by the use of blame and an over-dependence on [...]

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Setting Aspirational Safety Targets Is an Exercise in Futility

Safety Programs

Setting Aspirational Safety Targets Is an Exercise in Futility By Peter L Mitchell Setting targets and objectives is a very important part of our everyday work life. It may be targets for sales, profit, safety, market share, staff turnover, absenteeism, share price and so on. These targets and objectives are vital because they give direction [...]

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Zero Harm

Robert Long

What’s the Issue with the language of Zero? Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Leaders and researchers know that language and discourse are critical elements of cultural formation. The research (John Bargh) shows that how we “pitch” our message, “frame” our message and [...]

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Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate

LTIFR

George’s Safety Reflections – More Pearls of Wisdom Here Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate The Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate is the principal measure of safety performance in many companies in Australia. The definition of L.T.I.F.R. is the number of Lost Time Injuries multiplied by 1 million divided by the number of manhours worked in [...]

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Safety Incentives

Behaviour Based Safety

I’ve always thought that rewarding a team for not getting hurt was like winning a football game because you got less penalties than the other team rather than by the points you got from good team selection, training, tactics, teamwork and Coaching. George is similarly not in favour of safety rewards. George’s Safety Reflections MORE [...]

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Deming on Safety

Safety Culture

I had the pleasure of meeting this guy just before he died – LEGEND! Deming on Safety: Adopt the New Philosophy I’ve long been a big fan of Deming’s Philosophies and Phil La Duke has provided here an excellent article of how to apply to them to safety in the workplace. See the full article [...]

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How to Calculate LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators

Accidents

How to Calculate LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators By Tom Gardener Knowing how to calculate LTIFR and other safety indicators is an important skill to have if you work in the health and safety field. Despite the fact that these indicators don’t reveal a great deal of useful information managers love them and [...]

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Difficulties Calculating LTIFR and Other Safety Indicators

Accidents

Difficulties Calculating LTIFR and Other Safety Indicators By Tom Gardener The difficulties often encountered when calculating LTIFR and other safety indicators are not with the calculation itself but with the data that is included in the calculation. What are hours worked? What is a lost time injury (LTI) or a medical treatment injury? How are [...]

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LTIFR – A Measure of Safety Performance?

Safety Statistics

LTIFR – A Measure of Safety Performance? By Tom Gardener Look at almost any company’s annual report and you’ll find some comments about what the business is doing to improve their safety performance – usually measured by the number of injuries they’ve had that year and more specifically how many of those injuries have required [...]

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Measure Health and Safety Performance

Articles

Recent article by OHS Reps @ Work. Outlining the negative aspects of using traditional safety performance indictaors: Too often, the only measures used in workplaces and by government authorities are ‘negative’ measures. These are known as outcome indicators, and while they are important, they generally reflect the results of past actions. Outcome indicators may hide [...]

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Measuring Health and Safety Performance

Articles

[picappgallerysingle id="182103"] A Review of Commonly-Used Performance Indicators By Jerome E. Spear, CSP, CIH How an organization measures performance undoubtedly influences organizational behavior. However, measuring safety is difficult because it is difficult to predict the impact that new safety metrics will have on individual behavior, attitudes, and the overall safety climate. Regardless of how difficult [...]

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LEADING vs. LAGGING INDICATORS

Safety Statistics

There is a really interesting discussion currently underway by the EHS Professionals Group. Latest Discussion: LinkedIn Groups Group: EHS Professionals Discussion: LEADING vs. LAGGING INDICATORS….I would like to hear from others on what Safety Indicators their organizations use to measure their Safety Performance. Hi Please see the list of Leading Indicators those can add value…. [...]

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