While safety goals are essential, it can be effective only when the health and safety team has access to data and the safety management system is digitized.
Data visibility will ensure that safety professionals have a finger on the pulse of all lagging indicators such as the types of incidents or vulnerable sites with high incident rates. But as we wrote in this blog, measuring only lagging indicators is not enough.
It is important to identify all leading indicators such as:
No. of safety observations and near-misses
Metrics that can measure the level of management commitment
Qualitative and quantitative measures of inspections/audits
Safety training level and awareness about safety across the organization
Ideally, one must implement a next-generation EHS management system that offers in-built analytics, so data can be used to drive safety-related decision-making.