A proactive approach to safety helps organizations prevent injuries, avoid costly OSHA violations and foster a strong safety culture built on accountability and communication. Safety is the most ...

In the past, the most common way to measure the safety performance of a business was to look at “lagging” indicators. The number of incidents and injuries would be metrics tasked with painting a ...

Traditional lagging safety metrics like OSHA recordable rates or lost-time case frequencies have been used for years to measure safety program success. At EHS Today America’s Safest Companies ...

Recently, OSHA announced its intention to hold a stakeholder meeting in Washington D.C. next month to obtain information to create tools to help employers with developing and using leading indicators ...

At a November 7 OSHA public meeting on leading indicators for safety and health programs, Associated Builders and Contractors Vice President of Health, Safety, Environment and Workforce Development ...

Finding a hazard in need of a fix may be obvious after an incident occurs, but what about predicting in advance where to focus your safety and health resources to prevent injuries? In November 2019, ...