E112: Stop Counting Injuries and Measure Control Quality Instead: SIF Prevention (QUICKISODE)
Is your injury rate telling you next to nothing about fatality risk?For years, 'safety' has been measured by counting what went wrong - e.g. recordables, TRIFR, LTIFR. But serious injuries and fatalities, or SIFS, haven't followed the same consistent downward trend.
This raises the question: are we measuring the 'wrong' thing?
This video unpacks a 2026 study from Bayona, Hallowell and others who analysed 999 field assessments from 31 utility & construction companies, testing whether two short-term measures predicted serious harm potential.
The measures were:a) Pre-job safety brief (PJSB)…
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