Traditionally, a safety manager’s majority of reporting has consisted of lagging indicators; injury and illness statistics, such as, Total Recordable Injury Frequency (TRIF) or Lost Time Injury Frequency (LTIF). Although these reports are widely used in the industry for historical purposes, they are not the best indicators for safety managers to use to improve their company’s safety program and determine the best place for safety resources.

One of the major reasons that lagging indicator reporting is used by safety managers is because leading indicator (proactive) reporting, such as compliance reporting and action items completed on time are very difficult to report. The benefit of having a quality online safety management system is that these statistics are generated from the system.

SafetySync now has two leading indicators available on our safety management system.  First, overall corporate compliance is charted to determine the overall direction of a companies compliance levels. This can then be drilled down to each element in the safety program, or down to the individual employee level.

In addition, SafetySync now charts Action Item History.  Allowing safety managers to track action items’ progress in four different categories, determining how effective their company is at completing action items on time.


These two leading indicators give forward-thinking safety managers the reports they need to inform management on the performance of their safety program and allow management to make informed decisions that will ultimately improve their corporate safety program.

 You may have noticed that we've added a new panel called "Reminders" to the employee portal home page.  As with all our features, we tried to emulate the real-world equivalent, by making it look like a white board that you might have above your desk.

This list will contain any items that are an employee's responsibilities under the health and safety management system, but that don't yet show up under the compliance graphs.

Reminders include such things as training and certificates that are coming due, action items that are past or coming due, bounced emails (invalid address), and so on.  Ideally the reminders are meant to make employees aware of requirements before they interfere with compliance.  We will add these reminders to the compliance emails shortly.

If you have any suggestions about what other items might be included in this list, please contact customer service with your comments!