EEI Leading Indicator Safety Rate proposal

Clint Reuter, REHS, CSP

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Background

89% of respondents stated that measuring Leading Indicators is Extremely or Very Important. Only 28% of companies equally balance leading and lagging indicators at the corporate level.

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Leading Indicator program impact on Injury Rates

A 2011 University of Toronto study of 800 firms showed that leading indicator performance had a direct impact on injury rates.

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Leading Indicator Safety Metric

• 2013 EEI Survey results

• Reduces DART rate

• Most of us are already measuring and reporting to leaders

• Unable to benchmark against our peers

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Proposal – EEI Leading Indicator Metric

• Combine multiple, prevention-focused activities into a single rate:

# Leading Indicators x (month multiplier x 2,000)

# of hours worked by all employees

Example inputs:

• Safety Conversations/BBS

• Near-miss/unsafe condition/hazard removed

• Site Safety Audits

• Leadership field visits

• SIF Precursor Analysis

• (Others?)

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Leading Indicator Safety Metric

• Suggested next steps

• Form a committee

• Research new related studies

• Decide on a universally accepted set of leading indicators

• Determine leading indicator case rate formula

• Report back to group

• Move toward adoption of a leading indicator metric, or a set of metrics