Safety Culture
Using Data to Strengthen Safety Culture: Improving Construction Safety
See how construction firms are using data-driven insights to improve workplace safety culture.
The Science of Safety
Data Science
Ouch!!! Real. Bad. Data.
Your data makes a difference. when you review your historical incidents, you will see obvious opportunities to provide guidance and improve...
Guest Author
Using Data to Reduce Injuries and Costs
Firms are motivated by understanding their injury performance measured against the performance of their peers.
Big Data
To COR, or not to COR…
Using COR audit results and WCB claims data, we studied the effectiveness of the COR program in three subsectors.
Analytics
OPM as a potential leading indicator
If the surveys demonstrate aggregate alignment with incidents, they can be applied as leading indicators for companies as a warning indicator.
Big Data
Artificial Intelligence is not a Magic Box
It should be clear now why we believe no ML algorithm is magic. To have a smart machine we need good data to train the machine with.
The Smaller the Company, the Bigger the ROI with C.O.R.*!
On average, small firms are expected to have a 55% drop in the total compensation days per claim if they become COR-certified.
Big Data
Getting Past the Safety Plateau
What if we could actually analyze trends and benchmark against other companies? Educate senior management, using numbers to show leading indicators?
Analytics
The OPM safety survey and its indications
The OPM survey can provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of an organization and strengthen accountability for practicing safety measures.
Analytics
Does C.O.R. Help Reduce Injuries?
Firms registered for the voluntary COR program experienced substantial reduction in their time loss injury rate (TLIR).
Guest Author
Using AI Sensors for Safety
Wearable technology helps reduce injuries and increase awareness in many aspects of safety for individuals and organizations alike.
Incident Data
Knockin’ Down the Little Guy
As someone who has had to evaluate contractors on a regular basis, I can tell you that when injury statistics are used to “Grade” contractors....
Incident Data
Revenge of the TRIF
Anyone who has been in health and safety, or had it as part of their “performance measurement”, knows what the TRIF (or TRIR) is.
Opinion
Comedy Meets Safety
We have all seen the well-used comedy prop, a banana peel. Little did you know - it comes from a real safety hazard of the past.
Company Culture
Merry Mask-Mas
We asked our people to do two things: take a picture of themselves doing something silly in a mask, and write two sentences about themselves.
Big Data
The Quest for Leading Indicators – The Holy Grail of Safety
A leading indicator in safety is a piece of data that corresponds with and can help to predict and forecast future change in risk and unsafe events.
Big Data
Becoming a Practical Data Scientist
If you thought of becoming a data scientist, you probably took one of those fancy courses where they taught you how to train deep neural networks.
Big Data
Safety Fatigue Part Deux
Safety Fatigue is a workplace/worker condition where apathy towards policy & procedure is heightened to ineffectiveness & increasing risk/negative...
Data Science
Seven Deadly Sins of Safety Data
After years of working with safety data, we have seen it all. Failing to get your safety data collection right can cause injuries or fatalities.
Guest Author
COR Should be at the Core
I highly recommend that any buyer of construction services start by confirming that their contractor is COR certified.
Guest Author
The Role of COR in Reducing Serious Injuries
A growing body of evidence suggests that implementing COR in small Saskatchewan construction firms can reduce occurrence of all injures by up to 40%.
Incident Data
Infrastructure Stimulus Spending could Increase Injury Rates
Anecdotally, we have observed that firms experiencing what we call “business expansion” seem to experience higher injury rates.
Analytics
What is EHS Analytics? (And then there was light…)
On Aug 21, 2017 at 11:34AM the 1st incident record flowed into the EHS Analytics platform. We had finally gone live with our brand new, bold & crazy...