Effective KPIs in Safety

We are all looking forward to that special day known properly as the “pizza party” when we reach a target goal of days since last accident. The only problem is this goal of zero incidents is a recipe for covering reporting from real time incidents. Counting the days will never be as effective as making the days count. That’s why an effective key performance indicator, or KPI, is to measure employment involvement rather than lagging indicators. 

Encourage your employees to report near misses, close calls, near hits, and other potential incidents to reduce your incident severity. Encourage them to report unsafe acts and conditions to further reduce severe incidents. Finally, encourage positive safety observations from your supervisors and frontline workers to get the most benefit in reducing all incidents. 

Some useful KPIs to measure are: 

Involvement Reporting Rate: 

adoption rate x reporting rate = involvement reporting rate 

(0-100%)^2   x observations/total # EEs = 0-10 grading

Total Involvement Rate:

adoption rate x reporting rate x completion rate = involvement reporting rate 

(0-100%)^2   x observations/total # EEs  x 0-100% = 0-10 grading