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Safety managers and others concerned with construction workers’ well-being increasingly use geospatial data for better risk awareness.

The Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) has become a universal metric. For the few that are not familiar with the TRIR calculation, let’s do a brief review.

In this ISHN podcast episode, we talk to Duane Duhamel, whose company has been researching and analyzing workplace injuries and fatalities data every year, to discuss the findings in the latest report.

Data collected from safety devices not only highlight operational adjustments to help prevent any safety incidents, but they can also be used to increase the efficiency and overall performance of logistics operations.

Injury Tracking Application data is OSHA’s electronic recordkeeping requirements for certain employers who were required to submit OSHA Form 300A information from Jan. 2 to March 2, 2023.

Drowning in data but starved for insights? It's a common problem in the field of workplace safety where having access to a vast amount of injury data is both a blessing and a curse. 

Latest white paper describes how employers can apply data and AI technology to reduce the risk of serious injuries and fatalities for workers.

What if we could crowdsource our EHS data? A prime example focuses on the safety successes of the U.S. airline industry - no commercial U.S. airline has experienced a fatal crash since 2009! Their safety strategy has been so effective that the healthcare industry, which currently experiences 250,000 unnecessary patient deaths a year in the U.S., is attempting to follow its protocols. So, what has helped the airline industry achieve such immense safety feats and how can EHS leaders in industries outside of the airline industry take a page out of their book?

In a recent poll we asked EHS professionals: what is your biggest barrier to collecting accurate EHS data? The clear winner was “cultural barriers to data entry” followed by “training of data collectors” which received 39% and 30% of the vote respectively. Culture is a word that is commonly used in the EHS industry and building a safety culture is often a focus of EHS professionals.