... they avoid and prevent employees from getting injured, as evident in the various accident-based metrics used to measure and compare and contrast "safe" organizations from "un-safe" ones. Success or failure often hinges upon the absence of adverse events. Efforts to improve safety are typically based...

... manager metric safety program result risk assessment information irmi risk and uncertainty assessment Session No. 738 Collaborating Between Safety and Risk Management to Improve Safety Program Results Tom Heebner, MBA, CSP, ARM, CLCS, ABCP HUB Risk Services Chicago, IL Guy Gioino, CSP, ARM, CHMM...

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... into the field. These professionals will demand more meaningful business models and metrics to serve as benchmarks in managing their EHS efforts within their organizations. Leading the charge in this area will be the use of "management systems" approaches to organizing these efforts. Currently there are several...

... and the environment. The use of performance standards, commonly known as metrics, has become an integral requirement of the SH&E management system aligning with main organizational goals. Lagging metrics such as accident, frequency & severity rates have dominated almost all Organizations as the key indicators...

... expertise can be found leading safety metrics development and benchmarking, resource conservation, waste reduction and zero landfill success, "green" project safety, "green" buildings and fire protection, and sustainable culture development. While climate change prevention and conservation efforts continue...

... Introduction The use of leading indicators and proactive metrics in the field of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) management is characterized by opposites. Leading indicator programs have gained significant traction and momentum in world-class organizations, yet the basic parameters...

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... Introduction Using data collected from leading companies worldwide, more and more are moving away from incidence rates as their sole means of measuring safety performance. In this session, attendees will Identify leading metrics from a Balanced Scorecard perspective Learn to avoid...

... competitive advantage insurance company worker compensation consumer health age group claim system big data indemnity claim cost driver business decision metric leadership financial impact workplace safety professional claim count health & medicine information data mining...

... program elements Understand how to use leading metrics, employee engagement and integration to drive safety into the organization. DuPont (Bradley), Bird and others for years have been touting four levels of safety program maturity. Within the past 10–15 years, many leading companies have...

... Session No. 611 Harmonizing Performance Metrics: The Key to Sponsoring Organization Change John McConnell, MBM, C.S.P., CRSP Fran Sehn, MS, C.S.P., ARM Overview There are two words that characterize the challenge that organizations face in preventing occupational injuries and illnesses Idea...

... contribute to business profitability. Efforts are emerging to incorporate safety and health metrics into sustainability reporting. There is an adage – the reward for good work is more work! All that we have achieved in the past has prepared us well for a collaborative leadership role in sustainability...

... Introduction In November, 2011, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) held a symposium on Safety Metrics entitled "Prove It." The author of this paper was the chair of the task force that created the symposium as well as a symposium speaker. A white paper was developed...

... getting a good benchmark to judge the safety efforts of your team and organization? If you are using OSHA statistics as the sole basis for your benchmarking, without consideration for key risk and claims metrics, you may not be doing your organization any favors, because OSHA statistics only tell part...

... a system against criteria. The wisdom is in constructing a method which easily shows these metrics to achieve the desired results. How can we expect management engagement in EHS activites when performance metrics are hidden or unrelated to other performance criteria? Management may not have ready access...

... management medical cost claim cost claim management game sheet safety process improvement technique strategic planning and management action item log metric attorney involvement reduction Session No. 610 Discover What You re Missing Applying Process Improvement Techniques to Claim Management...

... by preventing losses from occurring. The challenge is to identify and establish a set of performance metrics which enables an organization to measure the effectiveness of the safety and loss control program. Many organizations measure and report the OSHA Incidence Rate or Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate...

... Introduction Why should Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) professionals be concerned with metrics? The answer to this is both simple and complex. The simple answer is summed up in the quote "what gets measured gets done." i How does the EHS professional know if their efforts are bearing...

... that their program is world class upon reaching that goal. Another way to measure safety performance is to comparing oneself to one s own past performance. This may show improvement but not excellence! One of the major drawbacks of this methodology is that these metrics are based on historic data and may or may...