Data analytics is helping guide decision-making in virtually every industry. Many manufacturing-based companies are embracing data science to optimize their marketing, accelerate their sales and forecast their financials. Yet when it comes to workplace safety, the manufacturing sector has yet to unleash the power of data -- perhaps because of an uninformed picture of what big data truly is. Bringing data into the equation is not just about reinventing old processes with more precision – it’s about asking new questions and undertaking new analyses that challenge the way we think outside the proverbial box and reward companies with exceptional outcomes.
Examining data on the events leading up to workplace incidents, the circumstances surrounding them, and the after-effects, our data science team is beginning to unlock new answers on the prevention of workplace injury and death. After analyzing ten years of data from over 1,000 companies, we have big data driven insights that challenge how companies have been approaching workplace safety up to now.