Safety Auditing: Applying research methodology to validate a safety audit tool

Safety Auditing: Applying research methodology to validate a safety audit tool

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January 1, 2006 | Huang, Yueng-Hsiang; Brubaker, Stanford A | Copyright

Applying research methodology to validate a safety audit tool

SH&E MANAGERS ARE OFTEN ASKED-and even ask themselves-"How well does the organization's risk reduction and safety plan work? How can we be certain that [any specific safety activity] will contribute to overall program improvement and reduction in losses?"

Traditional approaches to benchmarking risk management and safe work performance with incident rate reduction have failed to provide a strong connection between program causes and direct factors influencing risk and loss frequency. Benchmarking, by definition, provides a comparative baseline to serve as a "stake in the ground" for basing various measurements or systems of evaluation. …

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