Safety Metrics for the Modern Safety Professional

This book investigates the world of leading indicators and explores how they can effectively be used, providing the 21st Century safety professionals with alternative metrics and guidance to enable them to make a difference in managing risk within an organization.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - We Manage What We Measure
Chapter 2 - A History of 20th-Century Safety Metrics
Chapter 3 - The Body Count Dilemma
Chapter 4 - Using Data Properly: Preventing Garbage In, Garbage Out
Chapter 5 - Leading Indicators: What Are They and How to Use Them
Chapter 6 - Results-Based Measures; aka Lagging Indicators
Chapter 7 - Value-Based Metrics
Chapter 8 - Using Balanced Scorecards
Chapter 9 - Selling Upper Management on Metrics That Define Success
Chapter 10 - Using Metrics for Global Initiatives and Modern Management Systems Standards
Chapter 11 - How Modern Metrics Will Impact and Change the Role of the Modern Safety Professional

About the author

C. Gary Lopez, MS, CSP, FASSP, is an accomplished safety professional with over 40 years of safety and risk management experience in the manufacturing, construction, and insurance industries. He was heavily involved in the Chemical Manufacture’s Association (now the American Chemical Council) development of the Responsible Care™ Program, chairing the committee that drafted the Safety and Health Code and the CAER Exercise Guide. Currently, Lopez is President of Risky Biz Services Inc. and is also employed by Gallagher Risk Management Services.

Summary

This book investigates the world of leading indicators and explores how they can effectively be used, providing the 21st Century safety professionals with alternative metrics and guidance to enable them to make a difference in managing risk within an organization.

Product details

• Authors: C. Lopez, Lopez C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367542467
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54246-7
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business and Management, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, Mathematics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Total Quality Management, Business & management, Probability & statistics, Engineering: general, Production & quality control management, Probability and statistics, Quality Assurance (QA) & Total Quality Management (TQM), Quality Assurance (QA) and Total Quality Management (TQM), Production and quality control management