Occupational Safety and Health Management System Cycle

activities working?” Safety performance should be evaluated in an organization in the same manner as productivity and other aspects of the business. Areas to evaluate include determining the overall effectiveness of a particular intervention, where a company’s safety performance stands with regard to other companies, identifying potential impediments to safety success, and determining the trends in accidents and losses over time. An integral part of any safety activity should include techniques for developing goals and objectives, collecting data to measure the success of the safety interventions, evaluating the results, and implementing the appropriate corrective action. The manner in which safety performance is measured can range from developing safety performance measures unique to a particular organization to using existing performance measures and standards to benchmarks derived from similar industries and organizations. Regardless of the approach, the measurement and evaluation of safety performance requires a carefully structured program of planning, establishing goals and objectives, identifying valid measures, conducting proper data analysis, and implementing appropriate follow-up measures.