ESM 21.0 - Better trailing safety metrics (Incident severity indexing) is number 21 of 25 distinct and separate courses, referenced as Executive Safety Minutes (ESMs), available that teach the student how to be strategic in creating a plan to improve and/or maintain safety performance.

Being strategic is important because if one does not get the big picture strategy right the tactics may not be effective and ultimately prove to be a lost resource.

This Executive Safety Minute, like all the Executive Safety Minutes in the series, will introduce you to strategies that will make you a better professional and help you influence at the highest levels in your organization. This will boost your confidence, further develop your professional skillset, and help you influence strategic decisions.

While traditional trailing metrics are important, severity indexing provides an opportunity to enhance the value of the data and better understand the potential risk of lower severity events. This Executive Safety Minute:

• Starts with a discussion of the benefits associated with applying a severity index,
• Is followed by an example of applying the severity index, and
• Finishes with an example of an “if not but for luck” analysis.