Your Safety Metrics Are Improving. Serious Harm Isn’t

About this episode

The episode discusses the discrepancy between improving safety metrics and the actual safety of workers, featuring insights from industry experts.

Send me a message If your safety metrics are improving, are your people actually safer? Or are you just getting better at measuring the wrong things? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by John Dony, CEO and co-founder of the What Works Institute, and Mike Swain, Technical Enablement Manager at Evotix, to unpack a stubborn problem hiding in plain sight: why serious injuries and fatalities remain frustratingly hard to reduce, even as traditional safety metrics app...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Raftery

Guests: John Dony, Mike Swain

Topics covered

• safety metrics
• serious injuries
• workplace safety
• measurement
• supply chain

Keywords

• safety metrics
• serious harm
• injuries
• fatalities
• measurement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: What Works Institute, Evotix

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