Transforming EHS Performance Measurement Through Leading Indicators (EGY387A)

Use Leading Indicators to Predict EHS Performance to Save Lives and Reduce Costs for your Company

Leading indicators have been used for years to predict the future. Weather professionals use barometric pressure to predict the weather. Polls are used to inform politicians whether they should change their strategy, and elevated body temperature or blood pressure are leading indicators concerning an individual’s health. The use of leading indicators, such as near misses, unsafe acts and unsafe conditions to protect future safety performance, exposure levels as an environmental threat of release are logical next steps in successfully improving safety, health and environmental measurement; and performance.

The technique of using leading indicators can reduce or eliminate the costs associated with injuries and health and environmental incidents – saving money for your company, all while helping you save lives and prevent disabling injuries. By incorporating incident severity, probability and type of injury, and health and environmental incident, the need to purchase costly safety, health and environmental programs is reduced or eliminated.

Learning and employing this technique permits a move away from the all-too-familiar cycle of good performance, therefore, no action needed, to deterioration in performance, resulting in the need for modification and correction, to poor performance, resulting in the need for a new program. Using this technique can prevent the cycle from occurring because you are using the predictions to make adjustments so that injuries and incidents do not take place.

Join this session, where expert speaker Dr. Vince J. Marchesani will address the challenge of using this technique to predict injuries, and health and environmental incidents. This is a session you do not want to miss! The ability to predict EHS performance is an opportunity to reduce injuries, illnesses and environmental impact is not only revolutionary, but it also works. The possibility of saving lives and cost savings for your company is enormous. The session will permit the use of unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, and near misses along with potential exposure and imminent discharges, to act as tools to predict injuries and health and environmental incidents. Vince will also provide references to the Heinrich Pyramid and The Campbell Institute Study, “Transforming EHS Performance Measurement Through Leading Indicators.”

Session Highlights

This session will cover:

• Leading indicators as a part of our daily lives
• The importance of leading indicators in industry
• The monitoring and reporting of leading indicators
• The use of severity, probability and type to predict injury and health and environmental incidents
• Actions in response to the predictions
• Improved safety, health and environmental performance
• Cost saving as a result of using this technique

Who Should Attend

• Personnel from the oil, chemical, paper, petrochemical, food, electronics and other industries
• Members of the following Trade associations:
  • The American Chemical Council
  • The Society of Plastic Industries
  • The American Petroleum Institute and many others