Guest Author
Using Data to Reduce Injuries and Costs
Firms are motivated by understanding their injury performance measured against the performance of their peers.
TOPIC
Safety
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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.
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.
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.
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.