Safety indicators proactive

The writers then proposed an approach to adapt the leading safety indicators (objective and subjective) in a collective proactive process to identify hazards, and assess and control risks. 

Patient Safety Indicators as Tools for Proactive Safety Management and Safety Culture Improvement... 

In conclusion, proactive safety indicators either irtfluence safety management priorities and the chosen actions for safety improvement or provide information about the dynamics of the sociotechnical system (not merely about the functioning of safety barriers and absence of harm). These proactive indicators are respectively labelled drive indicators and monitor indicators in this chapter. Safety indicators should be capable of measirring (morritor indicators) or facilitating (drive indicators) the presence of organisational attribrrtes necessary for ensuring adequate patient safety. 

Recognizing signals and early warnings through the use of proactive safety indicators will reduce the risk of major accidents. There is no need for a discussion what is lead and what is lag, but there is a need to develop and implement useful... 

Risk assessment A formal, structured, and methodical safety risk assessment process was developed and embedded on the factory floor. The safety risk assessment process was designed to be proactive and identify leading safety risk indicators that would point to new safety problems, not just based on past history (lagging safety indicators). Results were then used to create leading safety risk indicators— metrics that will identify where I will have future safety problems. 

Edkins GD. 1998. The INDICATE safety program Evaluation of a method to proactively improve airline safety performance. SafSci 30 275. 

Setting of KPIs helps the operators to be proactive in taking corrective action to avert problems. Good indicators also help track the impact of business decisions on process safety/integrity related risks. A common set of indicators should be used within the organization in order to allow comparison across various assets at different locations. 

The value of having a coherent set of safety performance indicators is that it enables regulators and industry to detect problematic operatious aud iudustrywide or systemic risks and proactively address these vulnerabilities instead of waiting for the next big accident. A good example is provided by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), which continuously collects, reviews, aud reports on performance of operations in its sector of the North Sea and works with industry and labor on improvements, as discussed in several other chapters. ... 

It is clear that proactive safety control is needed. Safety audits measure the management work being done to control losses, and are therefore vital performance indicators in the safety system. An audit will define what work needs to be done to improve safety and health management. 

The proactive activities required by the safety system change the way safety is traditionally viewed and managed. Once employees see that effort is directed into proactive activities, and that the sole focus of safety is not them and the injury rate, they feel confident to become a part of the process. Getting employees on board is a major change in safety culture, and normally one of the biggest hurdles to overcome. When employees see that the executive has signed a safety policy, meets monthly to direct the safety of the workplace, appoints employees as health and safety representatives, does plant inspections, and has safety as part of its personal key performance areas, then they know that safety is part and parcel of the organization, and that is an indication of a positive safety culture. 

These properties from HRO have heen used to identify proactive indicators, i.e. when there is conflicting goals an HRO property is safety commitment from the top . This property could he used as a starting point to identify a proactive indicator such as level of safety commitment from the top . 

There was no explicit assessment of safety culture, in combination with a quantitative evaluation of the HSE environment in the accident reports. Such an assessment could be used to get a collective measure or temperarnre of the priority of safety in the organization, related to best practice . In Itho (2004) there is shown a correlation between the level of safety culture and quantitative incidents/acddents thus safety culture could be used as an indicator of the holes in harriers or the level of erosion of barriers, in combination with quantitative HSE data. A more specific measure tan culture is described by Rundmo (1997) i.e. when an employee in the Norwegian oil and gas industry feels at risk he/she is at risk. A proactive indicator could thus be a workplace survey, measuring risk perceptions or performing a more broadly based assessment of safety culture in combination with other local quantitative indicators such as gas emissions, injuries compared with best practice in the industry. 

Based on a survey of accidents and incidents in the oil and gas industry we have identified some proactive indicators that could he explored to increase safety and resilience. The suggested indicators are ... 

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