Measuring the effectiveness of your organization's safety program can be challenging. A common way organizations measure success of their safety program is by looking at the number of safety incidents that have occurred each year. In addition to looking at your overall performance each year, it's important to assess each program area within the organization and why the improvements or weaknesses have occurred.
Leadership plays a critical role in making safety a priority. When leadership makes safety a primary focus, a culture of safety throughout the organization will develop. It's important that management from each program area are leading by example and assessing safety measures regularly. Understanding the safety measures being taken in each program area will allow you to better understand why the number of safety incidents have either increased or decreased as a whole. Once you know why, you can replicate the successes and improve the weaknesses to prevent further incidents from occurring.
We have developed a list of questions to ask yourself when evaluating your organization's management systems and safety measures.