A New Approach for Measuring Safety and Health Performance

摘要

Basically, ORC's new approach for measuring safety and health performance will include a new framework for measuring safety and health performance, measurement categories and candidate measures, and tools for choosing and applying metrics that are appropriate for specific company needs at the facility, business unit and enterprise levels.. Understanding the business process and the metrics used by operations staff to manage and track critical business activities can provide clues to creating Safety and Health performance metrics that can be better understood and managed by operations staff and company leadership. Every company should be collecting data from key program areas and generating metrics that enable management to understand and optimize safety and health performance. The issues to be addressed in improving safety and health performance measurement are difficult, but not insurmountable. There is "light at the end of the tunnel," and many companies are shifting to a more dynamic, robust, flexible metrics approach. Continually identifying and refining appropriate safety and health performance measures will be an ongoing challenge for many in industry. The ORC effort is not the "answer." It represents progress that will help move the thinking forward, so that programs and processes improve, workplaces become safer and more healthful, and a broader recognition develops of the importance of worker safety and health and the value it brings to the business and to society at large.