Everyone these days is talking about performance indicators for workplace safety. It’s widely understood that if you only measure injuries and follow OSHA injury/illness recordkeeping requirements you have a large blindspot in truly assessing how you safety processes are working, or not working.
OSHA has its own set of measures. They were devised for the Labor Department’s 2011-2016 Strategic Plan. With tweaking, some of these metrics could be applied to an organization. Specifically, OSHA uses these performance measures: