A successful business lies a strong safety culture and its industrial environment. Just like other areas of operations, a company that relies on data strives to continuously drive up the standards in health and safety, where they employ a range of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to track specific objectives.

The saying that ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’ isn’t old adage – in fact measuring what brings worth to the company is awareness – and one cannot deny that safety is at least 70% awareness.

ASK-EHS safety software offers KPIs that are interactive, facilitates “shop floor to top floor” communication and serves as your artificial “EAR” in listening to important safety chatter and decision-supportive information within your workplace and across organization.

But what are the key reasons to measure KPIs?

When an industry invests and takes interest in actively measuring their safety KPIs, they are actually building a tool that allows and fosters the existing teams to view progress at any given time, which can be seen over days, months and even years.

The principal objective behind creating performance indicators is to provide managers, prevention specialists and the members of in-house EHS committee with summary documents, tracking reports or “cockpit” – their regular and systematic reporting and a collection of indicators stand most useful for an enhanced knowledge of risks and risk management.

The inspiration for these KPIs can be the cost of accidents, their increasing number and frequency, along with the severity of occupational accidents and diseases. While many of them are most limited to the financial aspects, their assessments encourage corporates to measure their performance indicators for benefits in the long run.

Showing pathways for essential improvements in future

OHS safety indicators tracking report act as a diagnostic tool and a driving force behind industrial actions and improvements. Their ways can vary, according to the work in-house. Many pinpoint key improvement or deterioration trends over time with deviations that necessitate priority plans of action. This way the organizations can benchmark and evaluate the degree of objectives that they have attained

Their assessments whether their planned improvements are effectively realized with their current mechanism allows one to keep track of the progress of actions and their efficacy creates feedback. Which promotes effective behaviour by gauging the progression towards or the deviation from their objective to be accomplished.

Such efforts consolidate the necessary stats, subsequently modifying the perception as well as the actions of the individuals responsible for ensuring occupational health and safety.

KPIs are the smarter way to do safety

Mostly industries have an objective description that provides preventive measures – this is more imperative today in safety, since the workers and the participants working under stressful situations – either physical or emotional are not in a position analyze their situations calmly. Favoring hasty and subjective judgments isn’t acceptable in safety – because it isn’t something to be taken lightly.

Industries when opt for KPIs see to it that their reports are precise and clear. The choice of indicators is a mutual decision and is taken on a consensus between health and safety committee experts, human resources, supervision staff and the management. Analysis and interpretation of indicators lead to a sense of measurement that can be obtained, and actions can be initiated accordingly.