In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industries are increasingly realizing the power of data in improving their safety programs. Manual and spreadsheet management of data can prove to be a time-consuming process, and organizations are quickly adopting digital solutions to put their safety data to use and create effective worker-protection strategies.
GE Healthcare, for instance, was able to simplify their Safety data trending and visualization and root cause analysis, and take prompt actions at all levels of the organization from their operators to management by adopting digital solutions to drive a data-driven safety program!
Read ahead as we explore the power of data in improving your safety program and how digital transformation can help you build an effective data-driven safety program!
Improving Your Safety Culture
Organizations that put their safety data to use are setting themselves up for success and can improve their safety culture over time. When safety leaders have meaningful data visuals and interpretations at hand, they can take informed decisions that help drive productivity and encourage employees to remain accountable to safety goals.
Safety data plays a pivotal role in fostering a positive safety culture within an organization. Here’s how data can positively impact your safety culture.
- Enhancing Awareness and Accountability
Data provides real-time information on incidents, near-misses, and safety compliance, making employees and management more aware of potential risks. When employees know their actions are being tracked, it encourages them to take personal responsibility for safety.
- Reporting and Feedback
Encouraging employees to report safety incidents and near-misses helps organizations gather valuable data. This data can be used to provide feedback, recognize safe behavior, and implement improvements, creating a culture of continuous improvement.
Enhancing Management Decision-Making
Data-driven safety programs enable organizations to make informed decisions and allocate resources more efficiently, focusing on critical safety programs and tasks that can make workplaces safer and healthier. Here’s how data can enhance the visibility of safety metrics and enhance management decision-making.
- Identifying Trends
Safety data allows organizations to identify trends and patterns, helping them pinpoint areas of concern and prioritize resources accordingly. For example, if data reveals a spike in incidents in a specific department, management can investigate and take targeted action. Safety data is categorized into leading and lagging indicators, with leading indicators enabling safety leaders to use measurements like Near Miss Reports and Safety Risk Assessments to help prevent future accidents and injuries.
On the other hand, lagging indicators leverage safety data from the past to identify areas of improvement using metrics like Incidents and Root Cause Analysis. By using data points that include both leading and lagging indicators, organizations can empower management to take informed decisions that prioritize workplace safety and improve safety procedures.
- Successfully Meeting and Monitoring Compliance Requirements
Data ensures that safety regulations and compliance requirements are met. Management can use data to track adherence to global and regional safety standards, assess the effectiveness of safety programs, and take corrective actions where necessary.
The Power of Digital Solutions in Building a Data-Driven Safety Program
To harness the power of data in enhancing safety procedures, organizations need effective digital solutions that can collect and derive meaningful insights from vast amounts of data. Spreadsheet management and disconnected data held in siloes can often be obstacles to ensuring that safety data is leveraged to improve organizations’ safety programs.
Digitally transforming your safety program can help you seamlessly compile safety data and create compelling dashboards and reports that can improve your safety culture and inform critical decisions.
Advanced Safety Insights with Dashboard & Analytics Solutions
Safety leaders require effective digital solutions that can help them access Safety data in real-time and derive analytical insights that can help them take quick action and measure the success of safety initiatives and programs.
Digital solutions like the Advanced Data analytics Dashboard software powered by Benchmark Gensuite® can aggregate and analyze data from multiple enterprise-wide applications and systems, view performance, and quickly identify risk factors and trends in your safety program.
This can help you prioritize safety risks, focus on high-risk areas, and allocate appropriate resources to address the most important actions first.
Push the Boundaries of Your Safety Data with Advanced Technologies & Artificial Intelligence
EHS Leaders can opt for advanced technologies that quickly sift through safety risks to help you identify those that have the greatest potential for harm, a process that can otherwise prove very time consuming. Solutions like Benchmark Gensuite’s PSI AI Advisor can help accelerate the identification of Potentially Serious Incidents (PSIs), automating data analysis to compare business data record descriptions with real-life scenarios that lead to serious incidents.
The solution can help uncover hidden & emerging safety risks by leveraging workplace serious injuries & fatality trends, built on insights from the Benchmark Gensuite Data Oceanâ„¢, an industry knowledge base comprised of over 68,000 cross-industry verified, publicly available serious injury & fatality records for comparison.
Embrace Data-Driven Safety with Benchmark Gensuite’s Analytics & Advanced Tech Solutions
Embracing the power of data is a proactive step toward creating a safer and more successful work environment for your employees and your organization. Benchmark Gensuite’s Dashboards & Analytics and Advanced Technology solutions can help you with accurate, timely, and actionable insights for worker-protection strategies and safety program enhancement, no matter how complex or widespread your operations are!
