Safety Analytics

Why Our Leading Indicator Programs Are Missing What Matters Most and What to Do About It

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:21:32 -0400

If you ask a group of EHS professionals whether they are getting quality, actionable data from their observation programs and BBS initiatives, a significant number will say no. But why?

Geospatial data plays a key role in maximizing safety in construction

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:18:22 -0500

Safety managers and others concerned with construction workers’ well-being increasingly use geospatial data for better risk awareness.

Enhanced benchmarking with the severity based incident rate

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:33:21 -0500

The Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) has become a universal metric. For the few that are not familiar with the TRIR calculation, let’s do a brief review.

PODCAST | A look at serious injuries and fatalities in the workplace

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:00:00 -0500

In this ISHN podcast episode, we talk to Duane Duhamel, whose company has been researching and analyzing workplace injuries and fatalities data every year, to discuss the findings in the latest report.

Harnessing data insights for continuous safety improvement

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:17:55 -0400

Data collected from safety devices not only highlight operational adjustments to help prevent any safety incidents, but they can also be used to increase the efficiency and overall performance of logistics operations.

OSHA releases 2022 injury and illness data

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:30:15 -0400

Injury Tracking Application data is OSHA’s electronic recordkeeping requirements for certain employers who were required to submit OSHA Form 300A information from Jan. 2 to March 2, 2023.

From numbers to knowledge: A guide to extracting valuable insights from injury data

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:02:53 -0400

Drowning in data but starved for insights? It's a common problem in the field of workplace safety where having access to a vast amount of injury data is both a blessing and a curse.

NSC Work to Zero Initiative releases new research to help prevent workplace fatalities

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:03:25 -0400

Latest white paper describes how employers can apply data and AI technology to reduce the risk of serious injuries and fatalities for workers.

Better together: An argument for crowdsourced safety data

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:57:30 -0500

What if we could crowdsource our EHS data? A prime example focuses on the safety successes of the U.S. airline industry - no commercial U.S. airline has experienced a fatal crash since 2009! Their safety strategy has been so effective that the healthcare industry, which currently experiences 250,000 unnecessary patient deaths a year in the U.S., is attempting to follow its protocols. So, what has helped the airline industry achieve such immense safety feats and how can EHS leaders in industries outside of the airline industry take a page out of their book?

Rethinking predictive analysis: Learn how to stop workplace incidents before they occur

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500

The shift of environmental, social, and governance from optional PR reporting to a mandatory requirement has many companies reevaluating how they use data.

EHS data collection: Overcoming cultural barriers

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:12:00 -0400

In a recent poll we asked EHS professionals: what is your biggest barrier to collecting accurate EHS data? The clear winner was “cultural barriers to data entry” followed by “training of data collectors” which received 39% and 30% of the vote respectively. Culture is a word that is commonly used in the EHS industry and building a safety culture is often a focus of EHS professionals.

Data accuracy and the golden ticket fallacy

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 11:03:00 -0400

So, what is data accuracy? Data accuracy is one of the “six dimensions” of data quality and it can be defined as the “degree to which the data correctly describes the ‘real world’ objects being described.” This definition makes it easy to see how poor data accuracy could greatly impact your ability to use your data effectively.

Data quality: It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:12:00 -0400

Many companies starting their data analytics journey make the mistake of skipping the data cleaning process all together. None of us want to see how the sausage is made, we just want the bratwurst to magically appear. But as we have seen over, and over, insightful analytics cannot be achieved with poor data quality.

Data does not speak for itself: You have to speak for it

Thu, 06 May 2021 12:15:00 -0400

The data “will speak for itself.” If you have spent any time in the data analytics world you have heard this phrase thrown around. But is it true?