Safety Metrics
Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance
Author: Dr. Christopher A. Janicak
This updated and practical guide will help you evaluate your company’s safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that improve overall performance. Written for professionals with limited exposure to statistics, Safety Metrics shows you how to assess trends and safety climates, work with data, and help with training.
30th April 2025
Hardcover
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Summary
This updated and practical guide will help you evaluate your company’s safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that improve overall performance. Written for professionals with limited exposure to statistics, Safety Metrics shows you how to assess trends and safety climates, work with data, and help with training.
Description
This completely updated and practical guide will help you evaluate your company’s current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Written for professionals with limited exposure to statistics and safety-performance-measurement strategies, Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance shows you how to assess trends, inconsistencies, data, safety climates, work with data, and help with training in your workplace so you can identify areas that need corrective actions before an accident or injury occurs.
Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety provides the reader with a framework for developing and implementing a safety performance measurement program in the workplace. From defining performance goals and objectives to establishing ways to quantify and measure performance, this book is designed for working professionals who are responsible for demonstrating the effectiveness of a safety program. Beyond the techniques for developing the program, this book presents content on commonly used methods for tracking safety performance based upon the potential loss perils including injured employees, liability losses, and property losses to name a few. Statistical analysis and data presentation methods are included as strategies that can be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the organization’s safety performance.
About the Author
Christopher Janicak, Ph.D., CSP(Ret), CEA (Ret), ARM, is a Professor Emeritus of Safety Sciences at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has 39 years of professional experience in the occupational safety field, with 29 years as a professor. He has a BS degree in Health and Safety Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, an MS degree in Industrial Technology – Industrial Safety Concentration from Illinois State University, and a Ph.D. in Research methods from Loyola University of Chicago. He served as the MS program coordinator and the PhD program coordinator and taught courses in statistics, research methods, and occupational safety courses in the areas of industrial fire protection, ergonomics, and systems safety to name a few. He has numerous research studies published in various peer reviewed publications.
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30th April 2025
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