Safety performance measurement Benefits

In addition, some evaluations may provide a grading system, so that each year s results can be compared to previous years. This report should be available to all employees and should be written in plain English and understandable by everyone. Avoid using jargon. Only use terms that all employees understand and use on a daily basis. Tables 17-4 and 17-5 present the benefits of safety performance measurement and a method to measure safety performance. 

Modem behavior-modification programs rely on the identification and reinforcement of safe behaviors. Considerable improvements in measures of safety performance have been attributed to the introduction of these approaches (see McSween, 1993, for a petrochemical example). However, other studies have indicated that performance may return to its original level if the programs are withdrawn. It is therefore important to maintain a continuing program to ensure that the initial levels of improvements are maintained. Also, the benefits of behavior modification programs have mainly been demonstrated in the context of work activities where there is a high level of... 

Bringing processes into or near a state of statistical control will improve processes by making them less variable, centered closer to target, and allow the manufacturer to make a product that will more consistently meet product specifications. This benefits both the manufacturer and the consumers who use their products. The use of SPC methods to evaluate and to improve processes not only can be applied to product characteristics such as tablet weight and tablet hardness, but also to product performance measures such as consumer complaints, line down time, and industrial safety measurements. An SPC approach to process improvement can also lead to reductions in fill overages, reductions in waste, as well as reductions in batch failures. By eliminating special cause variability, it becomes easier to monitor a process to ensure that new special causes do not find their way into the process. 

Renewed interest in having valid performance measures indicates that safety professionals would benefit from additional symposia on the subject. 

The contents of the paper includes results from inherent research project of MOERI/KORDI Development of Ship Safety Performance Prediction Technology for Cost Benefit Analysis and results from Marine Transportation Accident Simulation Analysis and Preventive Measure Development project funded by Korea Radioactive Waste Management Corporation. 

Dingsdag, D.P., Biggs, H.C. and Cipolla, D. 2008. Safety effectiveness indicators (SEIs) Measuring constmction industry safety performance, clierrts driving irmovation Benefiting from irmovation. Third International Conference, CRC for Construction Innovation, 12-14 March 2008 Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort Spa, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 

Considering the introduction and discussion about new measures of integral and active safety as a background, the safety performance generally refers to the benefit in the field. The field is a commonly used term for the traffic system as a whole (in markets and countries where the measure will be available). As a consequence, all possible safety effects (both positive and negative) within the traffic system as a whole have to be evaluated. The answer to the question should include a trade-off between both kinds of effects rather than the magnitude of positive effects alone. 

Behavioral safety involves measuring safety-related behaviors. Krause notes that the behavioral inventory is how we measure behavioral safety performance. Benefits of using a Critical Safety Behavior inventory for continuous safety improvement include ... 

The FMCSA has determined that ( Company Name f would benefit from the development and implementation of a Cooperative Safety Plan (CSP) to address the deficiencies identified above. The CSP must include a written description of the safety measures that will be implemented and must specify the time frame for implementation of the described safety measures. The development of the CSP is solely intended as a tool to help ( Company Name i come into compliance with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and the Hazardous Materials Regulations. Failure to improve your company s safety performance will result in further investigation of its safety management procedures, which may include requests for additional data through offsite or onsite investigations. Continued poor safety performance may also result in enforcement action against your company. 

There is an additional benefit from defining minimum acceptable accident-performance measures. Responsible firms will be deterred from myopic behavior if there are clearly stated minimum performance standards that they can meet that would obviate scrutiny by the FRA. From a societal point of view it is much more beneficial to state these minimal objectives in terms of safety outputs rather than by the existing system where acceptable performance is stated in terms of the minimum quality and quantity of safety inputs. The benefit comes from the ability of railroads to use their managerial ability to achieve at least the minimum level of safety by using the most efficient combination of safety inputs. 

The NMMS must be able to benefit from and contribute to other existing tools for measuring or understanding an organisation s performance, e.g. other safety-related information systems, audits, Total Quality Programmes, etc. This also means that the level of acceptance of a NMMS should, in itself, be considered as an important measure of an organisation s performance or "safety culture" (see Chapter 6). 

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