1st Edition

Business Measurements for Safety Performance

By Daniel Patrick O'Brien Copyright 1999
    132 Pages
    by CRC Press

    136 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Most businesses consider a multitude of factors to evaluate the performance of each business sector. In today's business culture, one singular number - OSHA recordable - typically measures safety. This is comparable to driving down the highway using your rear view mirror to steer.
    Business Measurements for Safety Performance provides a simple, effective, and applicable method of measuring safety performance. Just as other sectors consider equipment damage, lost product, employee turnover, customer satisfaction, and a host of other factors, so should safety performance. It can and should be measured using the same criteria as all other business sectors.
    Safety performance can affect a company's bottom line. The challenge: can we quantifiably measure safety performance in the same way we measure production performance, sales performance, or any other business sector. Business Measurements for Safety Performance supplies the tools you need for safety measurement to compete with other business sectors for company dollars, awareness, and commitment from management.

    Features

    The History of Performance Measurement
    The Beginning of Safety Performance Measurement
    Results Oriented and Reactive Measurement
    Behavior Based and Proactive Measurement
    What Other Business Sectors Measure - Benchmarking
    Quantitative vs Subjective Measurement
    Constant Improvement and the Safety Continuum
    Including Safety as a Business Sector
    Getting Buy-In Form the Troops
    Tracking Performance
    Performance Measurement in the Future
    Conclusion
    Index

    Biography

    Daniel Patrick O'Brien