Many safety pros are exasperated by their senior leadership’s slavish devotion to tracking OSHA recordables, lost-time incidents, severity rates and fatalities. In a way, you can’t blame them when their pay bonuses are based on these numbers, and the numbers represent pretty much all senior leaders know about safety.
The Center for Safety and Health Sustainability has proposed to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the non-profit group that publishes scores of indicators to show how sustainable corporations are “behaving,” a set of occupational safety and health indicators for inclusion in the overall group of sustainability indicators. Tom Cecich, chair of the board for the Center, explained at ASSE’s Safety 2013 that these new indicators are most importantly, operationalized in terms of definitions, and quantifiable.