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Elevating Safety Beyond Compliance to Prevent Workplace Injuries and Fatalities
ASSP President Linda Tapp and Wyatt Bradbury, principal of Health and Safety at Avetta, share how our Standards-Based User Groups (SBUGs) will help EHS professionals put consensus standards into action and improve safety.
They discuss how the SBUGs will bring together industry stakeholders to share knowledge, develop best practices and offer insights into how to implement voluntary consensus standards in real-world environments.
The SBUGs will initially focus on reducing the risks of falls from height, protecting workers from hazardous energy and using artificial intelligence (AI) to anticipate and reduce risks.
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Going Beyond TRIR to Measure and Improve Safety and Health Performance
Dr. Elif Erkal, associate director of research and strategy at the Construction Safety Research Alliance, shares why metrics like total recordable incident rate (TRIR) don’t tell the whole story and offers alternatives for more proactive safety management. She discusses how tools like high energy control assessments can help EHS professional identify high-energy hazards and the importance of a balanced scorecard to ensuring the effectiveness of controls.
Additional Resources
The Statistical Invalidity of TRIR as a Measure of Safety Performance
Moving Beyond TRIR – Measuring & Monitoring Safety Performance with High-Energy Control Assessments
Construction Safety Research Alliance – Safety in the Boardroom
Edison Electric Institute – The Power to Prevent Serious Injuries & Fatalities
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Rethinking the Hierarchy of Controls and How to Use it to Reduce Risks
Wyatt Bradbury, Principal – Health and Safety at Avetta, joins us to discuss the hierarchy of controls and its role in helping reduce risks in the workplace. He shares why it’s important for EHS professionals to examine the effectiveness of the controls at their job sites to help ensure they are reducing risk to an acceptable level. He also explains “active” and “passive” controls, the “transition of illusion” between engineering and administrative controls and why EHS professionals should prioritize “passive” controls and reevaluate residual risks.
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