In the latest book from one of America’s leading consultants on safety management and organizational behavior, Dan Petersen, Measurement of Safety Performance looks at the types of safety measurements currently used by companies and shows why they are inadequate for a realistic assessment of safety performance. Instead of “measuring failures” by using OSHA incident rates and accident statistics and worker’s compensation claims, which only measure incidents, Petersen argues that the best way to measure a company’s safety performance at all levels of the company is to use different types of tools, such as perception surveys and scored assessments like audits, to get a true measure of safety. Measures should exist for different levels of the company, from employees, first-line management, middle management, to upper management. He also suggests that getting employees involved in the safety process is key to making safety measures not just statistics in a company spreadsheet. ""The activity based performance measures will build employee involvement and the result based performance measures will engage executive management."" - Greg Rindal, CIH, CSP

Author: Dan Peterson
ISBN: 978-1-885581-49-5
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: American Society of Safety Engineers
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 206

About the Author

Dan Petersen was a consultant in safety management and organizational behavior. He was responsible for creating the Graduate Program in Safety Management at the University of Arizona. He has held Director-level positions with Allstate, Nationwide and Industrial Indemnity, and Wausau Insurance where he was an Assistant Vice President. He was also on the faculty of Colorado State University and Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. The Weaknesses in Safety's Measurement System
CHAPTER 2. Different Measures for Different Levels
CHAPTER 3. What Should We Measure?
CHAPTER 4. Choosing Criteria for Safety Measurement
CHAPTER 5. Measuring Individual Manager Performance
CHAPTER 6. Measuring the Line Manager
CHAPTER 7. The Key Micro Measure: Performance to Goal
CHAPTER 8. Macro Measures: Grading Overall System Improvement
CHAPTER 9. Measuring Company-wide Results: Injury Data
CHAPTER 10. Using Scorecards: A Macro Measure
CHAPTER 11. Measuring National Results
CONCLUSION: The Process of Achieving Safety
APPENDIX A Sample Audit
APPENDIX B Guidelines for Safety Excellence
APPENDIX C Statistical Process Control (SPC)
APPENDIX D Case Studies
INDEX

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