Leading indicators have been used for years to predict the future. Weather professionals to predict the weather use barometric pressure. Polls are used to inform politicians if they should change their strategy and elevated body temperature or blood pressure are leading indicators concerning an individual’s health. Therefore, the use of leading indicators such as near misses, unsafe acts and unsafe conditions to protect future safety performance, exposure levels and the threat of an environmental release are logical next steps in successfully improving safety, health and environmental measurement; and performance.
A technique will be presented to predict injuries and health and environmental incidents. By using leading indicators the technique enables the user to save money for their company by reducing or eliminating costs associated with injuries and health and environmental incidents to say nothing of the saving of lives and the preventing of disabling injuries and reducing or eliminating costs associated with such impacts. By incorporating incident severity, probability and type of injury and health and environmental incidents the need to purchase costly safety, health and environmental programs is reduced or eliminated.