The foundation of effective health and safety performance measurement is a system that produces specifications and performance standards for management and risk control systems. The objectives and targets should be the overall goals for the organisation, and also provide the means to evaluate its health and safety performance.
The choice of lead indicators will depend on the maturity of an organisation’s health and safety management system.
Lag indicators are important measures, but have traditionally focused on measuring the outcomes of poor health and safety practices and reflect the results of past actions.
Lead indicators are proactive measures that are used to control loss or damage. They can be used to measure how well health and safety arrangements are performing.
