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.